Object name: Holmos / Collection place: Central Italy / Materials: Ceramic (material) - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Holmos, accession number 8-510, described as Holmos and lid. yellow

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.

Hearst Museum object titled Holmos, accession number 8-1566, described as Another, similar to 1565. Description from Matteucig (1951): 36. Handleless Stamnoid Krater; height: 26.2 cm; diameter: 24.5 cm (see Matteucig's plate V, 10). Impasto type D. Clay, slip, and paint as in nos. 8-1564– 1565. Low neck, ridged inside, with flaring lip; pyriform body on low, hollow foot. Slip and decoration almost completely gone exposing a brick-red, unpolished surface. See figure 11 for a drawing of the original condition of the geometric design. Lip and neck broken off in a few places; two small holes on shoulder.

Hearst Museum object titled Holmos, accession number 8-1565, described as Smaller holmos. Description from Matteucig (1951): Handleless Stamnoid Krater; height: 27.5 cm; diameter: 25.8 cm (see Matteucig's plate V, 9). Impasto type D. Clay, slip, and paint as in 8-1564. Low neck, ridged inside, with slightly flaring lip; rounded body on low, hollow stem. Geometric decoration, similar to that of no. 8-1564, also badly faded. Most of the foot is restored (fig. 10). Cf. Mon. Ant., XXII, 1913, col. 413, fig. 161, from Faliscan territory; Not. Sc., 1903, p. 219, fig. 2, no. 3, from Sovana; J.d.I., XV, 1900, p. 167, fig. 9, and p. 173, fig. 13, from Poggio Buco. This type of vase has an ovoid, almost squat shape at Poggio Buco, and more rounded contours in neighboring territories.

Hearst Museum object titled Holmos, accession number 8-1564, described as Big red holmos. Description from Matteucig (1951): Handleless Stamnoid Krater; height: 55 cm; diameter: 37 cm (see Matteucig's plate VI, 4). Impasto type D. Clay whitish with some impurities; cream slip; designs in matt-red paint. Low neck, ridged inside, with flaring lip; large ovoid body, on high hollow stem. Geometric decoration badly faded (fig. 9). Very poorly preserved; part of neck restored in white clay; large part of body also restored; many cracks; slip flaking off. For shape, cf. Montelius, pl. 210, 4, from Poggio Buco and Not. Sc., 1896, p. 222, fig. 7, from Poggio Buco.