Etruscan black-figure neck-amphora; bifid handles; foot flaring with rolled edge; in fields on body, A, bull; B, cow; white dappling; on brim, coarse ivy leaves and dots; on neck, double leaves or petals with median rings; on shoulder, zigzag, below thin crossed and dotted squares in the bends of an embattled line. H. 21.0; D. 14.5 cm Add'tl comments: Orientalizing/Geometric decoration along the shoulder of the amphora; spots on cow reminiscent of Egyptianinzing motif. Not a prefect firing as the ceramic leans slightly to one side on the axis of the foot.
Donor:
Alfred Emerson and M. Boissé
Collection place:
Naples, Campania, Southern Italy
Verbatim coll. place:
Etruscan; “from Naples”; Italy
Culture or time period:
Etruscan
Collector:
Alfred Emerson
Collection date:
February 10, 1901
Materials:
Ceramic (material)
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Neck amphorae
Accession date:
1904
Department:
Classical Mediterranean
Dimensions:
depth 14.5 centimeters and height 21 centimeters
Comment:
Airport Loan with mount number 006 (3/2010) in box in kroeber 19 mez
Loans:
S1963-1964 #67: Department of Art History (UC Berkeley)/Darrell Arlynn Amyx (March 3, 1964–June 19, 1964) and S2008-2009 #12: SFO Museum (June 2009–June 28, 2010)