Trefoil oinochoe
- Museum number:
- 8-1692
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21080001692
- Accession number:
- Acc.103
- Description:
- Oinocheo, trilobate mouth. Description from Matteucig (1951): Oinochoe; height: 22.5 cm; diameter: 15 cm (see Matteucig's plate X, 3). Italo-Geometric. Clay cream, well purified; heavy cream slip; dark brown paint. Trefoil mouth; high neck; rounded body on low ring foot; reed handle. Mouth solid brown; on neck, a wavy line between three straight bands; on shoulder, metopal arrangement of five vertical stripes alternating with one or two cross-hatched rhomboids set point to point; three more bands, then the typical Italo-Geometric design of broad interlocking verticals; below this, six more bands and a solid brown bottom; narrow stripes on handle. Cf. Mon. Ant., XXXVI, 1937, col. 170, fig. 35 from Tarquinia: not an exact parallel, but it shows relation of shape and decoration; Not. Sc., 1898, p. 443, fig. 8, from Poggio Buco; Not. Sc., 1930, p. 131, fig. 17, bottom; for the interlocking verticals see St. Etr., V, 1931, Pl. XXXII, 2 from Tarquinia.
- Donor:
- Phoebe Apperson Hearst
- Collection place:
- Tomb D, Poggio Buco, Tuscany
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Tomb D
- Culture or time period:
- Etruscan
- Collector:
- Alfred Emerson
- Collection date:
- 1896
- Materials:
- Ceramic (material)
- Object type:
- archaeology
- Accession date:
- 1903
- Department:
- Classical Mediterranean
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