Globular jar and lid. Description from Matteucig (1951): Jar with lid; height: 23.5 cm; height, to top of lid: 32.5 cm; diameter: 24.5 cm (see Matteucig's plate XV, 1). Gray impasto. Clay light gray with some mica; very lustrous dark gray, almost black, surface. Low straight neck with thick protruding lip; globular body on low ring foot; horizontal handles; lid with a plastic horse for handle. Incised line just below neck; from this line hangs a band of interlaced half circles with the intervening spaces hatched; on shoulder, two incised birds each with a worm in its beak. Upper edge of lid adorned with two parallel zigzag incised lines; to the right and left of the plastic horse, two incised birds similar to those on body; in front of the horse, an incised palmette; behind it, another. For similar birds on different shape, cf. Mon. Ant., XXX, 1925, col. 645, p. 31; Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Mass., no. 4264; Univ. of Calif. 8/2114 from Saturnia.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Tomb F, Poggio Buco, Tuscany
Verbatim coll. place:
Tomb F
Culture or time period:
Etruscan
Collector:
Alfred Emerson
Collection date:
1897
Materials:
Ceramic (material)
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Jars
Accession date:
1903
Department:
Classical Mediterranean
Loans:
S1957-1960 [XXX Wellington]: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (1957–1960), S1963-1964 #67: Department of Art History (UC Berkeley)/Darrell Arlynn Amyx (March 3, 1964–June 19, 1964), S1971-1972 #41 [DEFUNCT]: Department of Art History (UC Berkeley)/Anna M. McCann (dates unknown), and S1996-1997 #5c: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (November 4, 1996–April 17, 1997)