Footless cup, flat rim. Description from Matteucig (1951): Chalice; height: 11 cm; diameter: 12.5 cm (see Matteucig's plate XX, 2). Italo-Corinthian. Clay pale buff; cream slip; reddish-brown and violet paint. Low rounded cup with flat lip; high stem with projecting rib in the middle; wide spreading foot. Inside, reddish brown, with six concentric violet circles; lip, reddish brown; on cup a band; stem and foot, solid reddish-brown. Lip chipped off in two places; spreading foot almost entirely missing. Cf. Not. Sc., 1921, p. 210, fig. 17, from Populonia; Not. Sc., 1922, p. 218, fig. 3,c, from Veii; St. Etr., IX, 1935, Pl. III, 3d row from top, no. 1, and 3d row from bottom, no. 5, from Heba; Albizzati, Pl. XVI, 217; C.W.A., Madrid, fasc. 1, III C, pl. 1, no. 21; Fairbanks, Pl. XLIII, no. 424; two examples from Poggio Volpaio tomb 6, and one from tomb 7, in the Museo Archeologico, Florence.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Tomb G, Poggio Buco, Tuscany
Verbatim coll. place:
Tomb G
Culture or time period:
Etruscan
Collector:
Alfred Emerson
Collection date:
1896
Materials:
Ceramic (material)
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Chalices (liturgical vessels) and Cups (drinking vessels)