Kyathos

Museum number:
8-1537
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.103
Description:
Light gray kyathos, similar to 1536. Description from Matteucig (1951): Kyathos; height: 7.5 cm; height to top of handle, 14.5 cm; diameter: 19.8 cm; diameter: across from handle, 16 cm (see Matteucig's plate Ill, 7). Brown impasto. Clay light brick red with whitish impurities; dull surface varying from light brown to light gray; inside, light gray. Low neck, with slightly flaring lip; narrow turned-up handle flattening out and broadening at point of contact with lip and body; small triangular perforation on handle just above lip; squat body contracting to flat base. On the middle of the neck, a band of incised dots. The shoulder was decorated with small plaques of lead, alternately 2 and 4 mm. wide; the only remains of this deco ration are small particles of lead dioxide and a high luster on the surfaces which they had covered. Inside, a laminated cross decoration (fig. 5); here, too, the metal has almost entirely disappeared. Small part of lip chipped off and restored in reddish clay.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Tomb B, Poggio Buco, Tuscany
Verbatim coll. place:
Tomb B
Culture or time period:
Etruscan
Collector:
Alfred Emerson and Riccardo Mancinelli Scotti
Collection date:
May 1897
Materials:
Ceramic (material)
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Kyathoi
Accession date:
1903
Department:
Classical Mediterranean
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 7 titled Kyathos, accession number 8-1537, described as Light gray kyathos, similar to 1536. Description from Matteucig (1951): Kyathos; height: 7.5 cm; height to top of handle, 14.5 cm; diameter: 19.8 cm; diameter: across from handle, 16 cm (see Matteucig's plate Ill, 7). Brown impasto. Clay light brick red with whitish impurities; dull surface varying from light brown to light gray; inside, light gray. Low neck, with slightly flaring lip; narrow turned-up handle flattening out and broadening at point of contact with lip and body; small triangular perforation on handle just above lip; squat body contracting to flat base. On the middle of the neck, a band of incised dots. The shoulder was decorated with small plaques of lead, alternately 2 and 4 mm. wide; the only remains of this deco ration are small particles of lead dioxide and a high luster on the surfaces which they had covered. Inside, a laminated cross decoration (fig. 5); here, too, the metal has almost entirely disappeared. Small part of lip chipped off and restored in reddish clay.Hearst Museum object 2 of 7 titled Kyathos, accession number 8-1537, described as Light gray kyathos, similar to 1536. Description from Matteucig (1951): Kyathos; height: 7.5 cm; height to top of handle, 14.5 cm; diameter: 19.8 cm; diameter: across from handle, 16 cm (see Matteucig's plate Ill, 7). Brown impasto. Clay light brick red with whitish impurities; dull surface varying from light brown to light gray; inside, light gray. Low neck, with slightly flaring lip; narrow turned-up handle flattening out and broadening at point of contact with lip and body; small triangular perforation on handle just above lip; squat body contracting to flat base. On the middle of the neck, a band of incised dots. The shoulder was decorated with small plaques of lead, alternately 2 and 4 mm. wide; the only remains of this deco ration are small particles of lead dioxide and a high luster on the surfaces which they had covered. Inside, a laminated cross decoration (fig. 5); here, too, the metal has almost entirely disappeared. Small part of lip chipped off and restored in reddish clay.Hearst Museum object 3 of 7 titled Kyathos, accession number 8-1537, described as Light gray kyathos, similar to 1536. Description from Matteucig (1951): Kyathos; height: 7.5 cm; height to top of handle, 14.5 cm; diameter: 19.8 cm; diameter: across from handle, 16 cm (see Matteucig's plate Ill, 7). Brown impasto. Clay light brick red with whitish impurities; dull surface varying from light brown to light gray; inside, light gray. Low neck, with slightly flaring lip; narrow turned-up handle flattening out and broadening at point of contact with lip and body; small triangular perforation on handle just above lip; squat body contracting to flat base. On the middle of the neck, a band of incised dots. The shoulder was decorated with small plaques of lead, alternately 2 and 4 mm. wide; the only remains of this deco ration are small particles of lead dioxide and a high luster on the surfaces which they had covered. Inside, a laminated cross decoration (fig. 5); here, too, the metal has almost entirely disappeared. Small part of lip chipped off and restored in reddish clay.Hearst Museum object 4 of 7 titled Kyathos, accession number 8-1537, described as Light gray kyathos, similar to 1536. Description from Matteucig (1951): Kyathos; height: 7.5 cm; height to top of handle, 14.5 cm; diameter: 19.8 cm; diameter: across from handle, 16 cm (see Matteucig's plate Ill, 7). Brown impasto. Clay light brick red with whitish impurities; dull surface varying from light brown to light gray; inside, light gray. Low neck, with slightly flaring lip; narrow turned-up handle flattening out and broadening at point of contact with lip and body; small triangular perforation on handle just above lip; squat body contracting to flat base. On the middle of the neck, a band of incised dots. The shoulder was decorated with small plaques of lead, alternately 2 and 4 mm. wide; the only remains of this deco ration are small particles of lead dioxide and a high luster on the surfaces which they had covered. Inside, a laminated cross decoration (fig. 5); here, too, the metal has almost entirely disappeared. Small part of lip chipped off and restored in reddish clay.Hearst Museum object 5 of 7 titled Kyathos, accession number 8-1537, described as Light gray kyathos, similar to 1536. Description from Matteucig (1951): Kyathos; height: 7.5 cm; height to top of handle, 14.5 cm; diameter: 19.8 cm; diameter: across from handle, 16 cm (see Matteucig's plate Ill, 7). Brown impasto. Clay light brick red with whitish impurities; dull surface varying from light brown to light gray; inside, light gray. Low neck, with slightly flaring lip; narrow turned-up handle flattening out and broadening at point of contact with lip and body; small triangular perforation on handle just above lip; squat body contracting to flat base. On the middle of the neck, a band of incised dots. The shoulder was decorated with small plaques of lead, alternately 2 and 4 mm. wide; the only remains of this deco ration are small particles of lead dioxide and a high luster on the surfaces which they had covered. Inside, a laminated cross decoration (fig. 5); here, too, the metal has almost entirely disappeared. Small part of lip chipped off and restored in reddish clay.Hearst Museum object 6 of 7 titled Kyathos, accession number 8-1537, described as Light gray kyathos, similar to 1536. Description from Matteucig (1951): Kyathos; height: 7.5 cm; height to top of handle, 14.5 cm; diameter: 19.8 cm; diameter: across from handle, 16 cm (see Matteucig's plate Ill, 7). Brown impasto. Clay light brick red with whitish impurities; dull surface varying from light brown to light gray; inside, light gray. Low neck, with slightly flaring lip; narrow turned-up handle flattening out and broadening at point of contact with lip and body; small triangular perforation on handle just above lip; squat body contracting to flat base. On the middle of the neck, a band of incised dots. The shoulder was decorated with small plaques of lead, alternately 2 and 4 mm. wide; the only remains of this deco ration are small particles of lead dioxide and a high luster on the surfaces which they had covered. Inside, a laminated cross decoration (fig. 5); here, too, the metal has almost entirely disappeared. Small part of lip chipped off and restored in reddish clay.Hearst Museum object 7 of 7 titled Kyathos, accession number 8-1537, described as Light gray kyathos, similar to 1536. Description from Matteucig (1951): Kyathos; height: 7.5 cm; height to top of handle, 14.5 cm; diameter: 19.8 cm; diameter: across from handle, 16 cm (see Matteucig's plate Ill, 7). Brown impasto. Clay light brick red with whitish impurities; dull surface varying from light brown to light gray; inside, light gray. Low neck, with slightly flaring lip; narrow turned-up handle flattening out and broadening at point of contact with lip and body; small triangular perforation on handle just above lip; squat body contracting to flat base. On the middle of the neck, a band of incised dots. The shoulder was decorated with small plaques of lead, alternately 2 and 4 mm. wide; the only remains of this deco ration are small particles of lead dioxide and a high luster on the surfaces which they had covered. Inside, a laminated cross decoration (fig. 5); here, too, the metal has almost entirely disappeared. Small part of lip chipped off and restored in reddish clay.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Kyathos, accession number 8-1537, described as Light gray kyathos, similar to 1536. Description from Matteucig (1951): Kyathos; height: 7.5 cm; height to top of handle, 14.5 cm; diameter: 19.8 cm; diameter: across from handle, 16 cm (see Matteucig's plate Ill, 7). Brown impasto. Clay light brick red with whitish impurities; dull surface varying from light brown to light gray; inside, light gray. Low neck, with slightly flaring lip; narrow turned-up handle flattening out and broadening at point of contact with lip and body; small triangular perforation on handle just above lip; squat body contracting to flat base. On the middle of the neck, a band of incised dots. The shoulder was decorated with small plaques of lead, alternately 2 and 4 mm. wide; the only remains of this deco ration are small particles of lead dioxide and a high luster on the surfaces which they had covered. Inside, a laminated cross decoration (fig. 5); here, too, the metal has almost entirely disappeared. Small part of lip chipped off and restored in reddish clay.

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