Collection place: Tomb A, Poggio Buco, Tuscany / Culture or time period: Italic people / Materials: Ceramic (material) - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Cup, accession number 8-1514, described as Small gray cup 1 h. Description from Matteucig (1951): Kyathos; height: 4.5 cm; height to top of handle, 7.5 cm; diameter: 9.3 cm; diameter: across from handle, 7 cm (see Matteucig's plate II, 10). Clay and surface as in 8-1513. Slightly flaring lip; squat body contracting to small flat bottom. Vertical handle, widening toward point of contact with lip and body; small triangular perforation on handle, just above lip. Diagonal tocchi di punta at base of neck. Vase restored from several pieces; three small parts of lip chipped off and filled out with gray mortar. Cf. Mon. Ant., XXX, 1925, col. 639, fig. 28, from Saturnia; for what may be a bronze prototype, cf. Not. Sc., 1889, PL I, 10, from Felsina.

Hearst Museum object titled Cup, accession number 8-1509, described as Another, similar to 8-1508. Description from Matteucig (1951): Kylix; height: 5.5 cm; diameter: 13.5 cm. (see Matteucig's plate II, 5). Clay, surface, and shape as in 8-1508. Restored from several fragments. Slight lime incrustation.

Hearst Museum object titled Cup, accession number 8-1508, described as Small eared cup. Description from Matteucig (1951): Kylix; height: 6.5 cm; diameter: 14.5 cm. (see Matteucig's plate II, 4). Clay pale buff, well purified; highly polished surface. Low cup with slightly offset rim, two "pinched" vertical handles, perhaps intended to be theriomorphic, (birds' heads?). Low, hollow foot, with a projecting cone in the center. Very well preserved, except for a few chipped-off particles, some lime deposits, and a few splotches of red paint scattered on the surface. The pedigree of this shape is not clear. Boehlau calls a kylix in Berlin which is just like ours a "Greek import," (J.d.L, XV, 1900, p. 169, no. 19), which I doubt. The vase seems closely related to Etruscan metalwork; cf. MUÍ. Greg., Pt. I, PI. XIX, for a silver parallel from Caere, and Montelius, pi. 311, 4, from Falerii, pi. 215, 8, and pi. 339, 4 from the Regolini-Galassi tomb. Cf. J.d.L, XV, 1900, p. 159, fig. 4, i, for a parallel from Poggio Buco. Mancinelli, in his inventory, p. 3, no. 8, says that this is a constant type in tombe a fossa semplice, a type which some times, as in tomb XV, from Sparne, is decorated with red geometric designs. For the latest treatment of these vases, cf. Dohan, PI. XLIX, 16-18, and p. 96.

Hearst Museum object titled Cup, accession number 8-1517, described as Gadrooned cup of b.a. Description from Matteucig (1951): Kantharos; height: 9.5 cm; height to top of handles, 13.5 cm; diameter: 18.3 cm; diameter: between handles, 12 cm (see Matteucig's plate II, 13). Gray bucchero. Clay, surface, shape, and decoration as in 8-1516. Small part of lip restored. Not. Sc., 1898, p. 447, fig. 9, from Poggio Buco, probably represents this vase.

Hearst Museum object titled Cup, accession number 8-1511, described as Gray cup, no handle. Description from Matteucig (1951): Bowl; height: 6 cm; diameter: 17.3 cm (see Matteucig's plate II, 7). Brown impasto. Clay grayish with many black shiny and dull whitish particles; brownish polished surface; inside, and some outside portions, almost black. Shoulder slightly withdrawn below the rim; rounded low sides contracting to flat bottom. Lime incrustations; part of lip chipped off; very heavy. Cf. Mon. Ant., XXXIV, 1931-1932, col. 379, fig. 46 from Populonia.

Hearst Museum object titled Cup stand, accession number 8-1518, described as Cup stand with bulbs Description from Matteucig (1951): Pot stand; height: 28.5 cm; diameter: upper basin 14.5 cm; diameter: at foot 15.5 cm Pl. II, 14. Gray bucchero. Clay as in 8-1516–1517, with a few more impurities; surface not quite so well polished, varying from typical gray bucchero to dark brown. The shape is a combination of two cones set point to point with two intervening lobes. The upper basin is decorated with five horizontal incised lines. Three rows of semicircular vertical hooks support twenty loose rings; alternate hooks on the lower row have two legs, and carry no rings. A crude figure of a man standing “in an archway" is repeated four times in the open work of the lower part. About half of the upper basin and a small part of the foot are restored. Reproduced in Not. Sc., 1898, p. 447, fig. 9, center, from Poggio Buco.

Hearst Museum object titled Cup with handle, accession number 8-1510, described as Cup w. spectacle handle. Description from Matteucig (1951): Bowl; height: 6 cm; height, to top of handle, 10.5 cm; diameter: 16 cm. (see Matteucig's plate II, 6). Brown impasto. Clay reddish brown with usual impurities; glossy brown surface; inside, red. Low straight lip; shoulder breaking off sharply against body and neck; low flat foot. Horizontal moulding between lip and shoulder line; over neck and shoulder, three small vertical ribs decorated with tocchi di punta (small incisions produced by a pointed instrument). Vertical double handle, with tocchi di punta on the inside. Small part of lip restored; vase patched together from several pieces; lime incrustations. Cf. Mon. Ant., XXX, 1925, col. 639, fig. 28, from Saturnia, and Mon. Ant., IV, 1894, col. 192, fig. 76, from Narce. The shape is an example of the impasto bowls, with or without handles, common in Etruria proper, in the Faliscan territory, and in the early settlement of the Roman Forum.

Hearst Museum object titled Cup with handles, accession number 8-1513, described as Gray cup w. 2 handles. Description from Matteucig (1951): Kantharos; height: 7 cm; height to top of handles, 11 cm; diameter: 15.8 cm; diameter: between handles, 11.5 cm (see Matteucig's plate II, 9). Gray impasto. Clay grayish with many impurities; dark gray polished surface, varying to brown. Low, slightly flaring lip; horizontal moulding joining lip to shoulder; low angular body contracting to flat bottom. Bands of "twisted wire" impressed above, and below moulding. High vertical handles rounded above, flattening out to triangular ribbons at point of contact with rim and body; triangular part of handles decorated with incised triangles filled with lead; other incisions filled with lead on upper and inner sides of handles. Halfway between handles, on shoulder, a small knob in an incised triangle. Between knobs and handles, traces of vertical plaques of lead symmetrically arranged (two between each knob and handle); some lead dioxide and a smooth, shiny surface, is all that remains of this metal decoration. Vase restored from many fragments; small portion of lip chipped off. Cf. Mon. Ant., IV, 1894, col. 205, fig. 93 for shape.

Hearst Museum object titled Goblet, accession number 8-1507, described as Geometric goblet. Description from Matteucig (1951): Krater on high stem; height: 21.5 cm; diameter: 20.5 cm. (see Matteucig's plate II, 3). Italo-Geometric. Clay brick red more purified and finer than in 8-1505 and 8-1506; cream, almost buff slip; thinly applied glaze; decoration in matt-red paint, varying to dark brown. Low neck shows slightly convex, broad lip; deep bowl has rounded sides on high hollow stem with flaring foot. On shoulder, a metopal decoration of nine vertical lines alternating with two horizontal zigzags. The rest of the vase is covered with parallel bands. On the lip, groups of nine stripes roughly corresponding to vertical lines of the "metopes"; five concentric circles on the inside of the bowl. Vase patched together from several pieces; small part of foot missing; some parts restored in red clay. Cf. Montelius, pi. 293, 12; pi. 311, 8 from Falerii, with geometric birds; Si. Etr.. I, 1927, PI. XXV, i, from Caere, also with birds. Albizzati, fase. I, PI. II, 38, and PI. Ill, 39; Sieveking-Hackl, p. 71, fig. 78; C.V.A., Copenhagen, fase. V, pi. 208, no. 3, also nos. 4, 5, 6, and pi. 207, nos. i, 2. For an interesting modification of this shape, with double horizontal handles, from Le Bucacce, cf. Mon. Ant., XXI, 1912, col. 423, fig. 10; for a reversal of technique (white on red) on a somewhat similar shape, cf. Not. Sc., 1903, p. 219, fig. 2, no. i. Akerström, G.S., pi. 25, 3.

Hearst Museum object titled Holmos, accession number 8-1505, described as Holmos, red, high foot. Description from Matteucig (1951): Handleless Stamnoid Krater; height: 42.5 cm; diameter: 27.5 cm. (see Matteucig's plate II, 1). Impasto type D. Clay brick red; dull and shiny whitish particles. Cream dressing; decoration in matt red paint. High straight neck with slightly flaring horizontal lip; ovoid body; campaniform hollow foot. Red band around base of neck; on upper half of body a broad zone of rectangles bisected by diagonals. Traces of a band of horizontal zigzags between two horizontal parallels on lower part of body; another band on the upper part of foot. Decoration varying in color according to the thickness of applied paint. Foot restored from ten fragments.