Olla

Museum number:
8-1563
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.103
Description:
Small olla. Description from Matteucig (1951): Jar; height: 14.5 cm; diameter: 14.8 cm (see Matteucig's plate V, 8). Red impasto. Clay red; red, red brown polished surface with black shiny particles. Globular jar with quatrefoil mouth; horizontal, slightly turned-up handles; small flat base. Above each handle, a laminated lead maeander (fig. 8b); between handles, laminated triangles with apex at the base of neck (fig. 8a). Mouth almost entirely restored; numerous cracks on body; laminae almost entirely chipped off, leaving shiny spots and dioxide particles. Cf. Mon. Ant., XXX 1925, col. 639, fig. 28, from Saturnia; Not. Sc., 1915, p. 21, fig. 4b, from Chiusi, Museo Archeologico, Florence, from Poggio Buco and Saturnia; Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Mass., no. 64.827.
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:
Ollas (vessels)
Accession date:
1903
Department:
Classical Mediterranean
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 13 titled Olla, accession number 8-1563, described as Small olla. Description from Matteucig (1951): Jar; height: 14.5 cm; diameter: 14.8 cm (see Matteucig's plate V, 8). Red impasto. Clay red; red, red brown polished surface with black shiny particles. Globular jar with quatrefoil mouth; horizontal, slightly turned-up handles; small flat base. Above each handle, a laminated lead maeander (fig. 8b); between handles, laminated triangles with apex at the base of neck (fig. 8a). Mouth almost entirely restored; numerous cracks on body; laminae almost entirely chipped off, leaving shiny spots and dioxide particles. Cf. Mon. Ant., XXX 1925, col. 639, fig. 28, from Saturnia; Not. Sc., 1915, p. 21, fig. 4b, from Chiusi, Museo Archeologico, Florence, from Poggio Buco and Saturnia; Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Mass., no. 64.827.Hearst Museum object 2 of 13 titled Olla, accession number 8-1563, described as Small olla. Description from Matteucig (1951): Jar; height: 14.5 cm; diameter: 14.8 cm (see Matteucig's plate V, 8). Red impasto. Clay red; red, red brown polished surface with black shiny particles. Globular jar with quatrefoil mouth; horizontal, slightly turned-up handles; small flat base. Above each handle, a laminated lead maeander (fig. 8b); between handles, laminated triangles with apex at the base of neck (fig. 8a). Mouth almost entirely restored; numerous cracks on body; laminae almost entirely chipped off, leaving shiny spots and dioxide particles. Cf. Mon. Ant., XXX 1925, col. 639, fig. 28, from Saturnia; Not. Sc., 1915, p. 21, fig. 4b, from Chiusi, Museo Archeologico, Florence, from Poggio Buco and Saturnia; Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Mass., no. 64.827.Hearst Museum object 3 of 13 titled Olla, accession number 8-1563, described as Small olla. Description from Matteucig (1951): Jar; height: 14.5 cm; diameter: 14.8 cm (see Matteucig's plate V, 8). Red impasto. Clay red; red, red brown polished surface with black shiny particles. Globular jar with quatrefoil mouth; horizontal, slightly turned-up handles; small flat base. Above each handle, a laminated lead maeander (fig. 8b); between handles, laminated triangles with apex at the base of neck (fig. 8a). Mouth almost entirely restored; numerous cracks on body; laminae almost entirely chipped off, leaving shiny spots and dioxide particles. Cf. Mon. Ant., XXX 1925, col. 639, fig. 28, from Saturnia; Not. Sc., 1915, p. 21, fig. 4b, from Chiusi, Museo Archeologico, Florence, from Poggio Buco and Saturnia; Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Mass., no. 64.827.Hearst Museum object 4 of 13 titled Olla, accession number 8-1563, described as Small olla. Description from Matteucig (1951): Jar; height: 14.5 cm; diameter: 14.8 cm (see Matteucig's plate V, 8). Red impasto. Clay red; red, red brown polished surface with black shiny particles. Globular jar with quatrefoil mouth; horizontal, slightly turned-up handles; small flat base. Above each handle, a laminated lead maeander (fig. 8b); between handles, laminated triangles with apex at the base of neck (fig. 8a). Mouth almost entirely restored; numerous cracks on body; laminae almost entirely chipped off, leaving shiny spots and dioxide particles. Cf. Mon. Ant., XXX 1925, col. 639, fig. 28, from Saturnia; Not. Sc., 1915, p. 21, fig. 4b, from Chiusi, Museo Archeologico, Florence, from Poggio Buco and Saturnia; Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Mass., no. 64.827.Hearst Museum object 5 of 13 titled Olla, accession number 8-1563, described as Small olla. Description from Matteucig (1951): Jar; height: 14.5 cm; diameter: 14.8 cm (see Matteucig's plate V, 8). Red impasto. Clay red; red, red brown polished surface with black shiny particles. Globular jar with quatrefoil mouth; horizontal, slightly turned-up handles; small flat base. Above each handle, a laminated lead maeander (fig. 8b); between handles, laminated triangles with apex at the base of neck (fig. 8a). Mouth almost entirely restored; numerous cracks on body; laminae almost entirely chipped off, leaving shiny spots and dioxide particles. Cf. Mon. Ant., XXX 1925, col. 639, fig. 28, from Saturnia; Not. Sc., 1915, p. 21, fig. 4b, from Chiusi, Museo Archeologico, Florence, from Poggio Buco and Saturnia; Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Mass., no. 64.827.Hearst Museum object 6 of 13 titled Olla, accession number 8-1563, described as Small olla. Description from Matteucig (1951): Jar; height: 14.5 cm; diameter: 14.8 cm (see Matteucig's plate V, 8). Red impasto. Clay red; red, red brown polished surface with black shiny particles. Globular jar with quatrefoil mouth; horizontal, slightly turned-up handles; small flat base. Above each handle, a laminated lead maeander (fig. 8b); between handles, laminated triangles with apex at the base of neck (fig. 8a). Mouth almost entirely restored; numerous cracks on body; laminae almost entirely chipped off, leaving shiny spots and dioxide particles. Cf. Mon. Ant., XXX 1925, col. 639, fig. 28, from Saturnia; Not. Sc., 1915, p. 21, fig. 4b, from Chiusi, Museo Archeologico, Florence, from Poggio Buco and Saturnia; Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Mass., no. 64.827.Hearst Museum object 7 of 13 titled Olla, accession number 8-1563, described as Small olla. Description from Matteucig (1951): Jar; height: 14.5 cm; diameter: 14.8 cm (see Matteucig's plate V, 8). Red impasto. Clay red; red, red brown polished surface with black shiny particles. Globular jar with quatrefoil mouth; horizontal, slightly turned-up handles; small flat base. Above each handle, a laminated lead maeander (fig. 8b); between handles, laminated triangles with apex at the base of neck (fig. 8a). Mouth almost entirely restored; numerous cracks on body; laminae almost entirely chipped off, leaving shiny spots and dioxide particles. Cf. Mon. Ant., XXX 1925, col. 639, fig. 28, from Saturnia; Not. Sc., 1915, p. 21, fig. 4b, from Chiusi, Museo Archeologico, Florence, from Poggio Buco and Saturnia; Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Mass., no. 64.827.Hearst Museum object 8 of 13 titled Olla, accession number 8-1563, described as Small olla. Description from Matteucig (1951): Jar; height: 14.5 cm; diameter: 14.8 cm (see Matteucig's plate V, 8). Red impasto. Clay red; red, red brown polished surface with black shiny particles. Globular jar with quatrefoil mouth; horizontal, slightly turned-up handles; small flat base. Above each handle, a laminated lead maeander (fig. 8b); between handles, laminated triangles with apex at the base of neck (fig. 8a). Mouth almost entirely restored; numerous cracks on body; laminae almost entirely chipped off, leaving shiny spots and dioxide particles. Cf. Mon. Ant., XXX 1925, col. 639, fig. 28, from Saturnia; Not. Sc., 1915, p. 21, fig. 4b, from Chiusi, Museo Archeologico, Florence, from Poggio Buco and Saturnia; Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Mass., no. 64.827.Hearst Museum object 9 of 13 titled Olla, accession number 8-1563, described as Small olla. Description from Matteucig (1951): Jar; height: 14.5 cm; diameter: 14.8 cm (see Matteucig's plate V, 8). Red impasto. Clay red; red, red brown polished surface with black shiny particles. Globular jar with quatrefoil mouth; horizontal, slightly turned-up handles; small flat base. Above each handle, a laminated lead maeander (fig. 8b); between handles, laminated triangles with apex at the base of neck (fig. 8a). Mouth almost entirely restored; numerous cracks on body; laminae almost entirely chipped off, leaving shiny spots and dioxide particles. Cf. Mon. Ant., XXX 1925, col. 639, fig. 28, from Saturnia; Not. Sc., 1915, p. 21, fig. 4b, from Chiusi, Museo Archeologico, Florence, from Poggio Buco and Saturnia; Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Mass., no. 64.827.Hearst Museum object 10 of 13 titled Olla, accession number 8-1563, described as Small olla. Description from Matteucig (1951): Jar; height: 14.5 cm; diameter: 14.8 cm (see Matteucig's plate V, 8). Red impasto. Clay red; red, red brown polished surface with black shiny particles. Globular jar with quatrefoil mouth; horizontal, slightly turned-up handles; small flat base. Above each handle, a laminated lead maeander (fig. 8b); between handles, laminated triangles with apex at the base of neck (fig. 8a). Mouth almost entirely restored; numerous cracks on body; laminae almost entirely chipped off, leaving shiny spots and dioxide particles. Cf. Mon. Ant., XXX 1925, col. 639, fig. 28, from Saturnia; Not. Sc., 1915, p. 21, fig. 4b, from Chiusi, Museo Archeologico, Florence, from Poggio Buco and Saturnia; Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Mass., no. 64.827.Hearst Museum object 11 of 13 titled Olla, accession number 8-1563, described as Small olla. Description from Matteucig (1951): Jar; height: 14.5 cm; diameter: 14.8 cm (see Matteucig's plate V, 8). Red impasto. Clay red; red, red brown polished surface with black shiny particles. Globular jar with quatrefoil mouth; horizontal, slightly turned-up handles; small flat base. Above each handle, a laminated lead maeander (fig. 8b); between handles, laminated triangles with apex at the base of neck (fig. 8a). Mouth almost entirely restored; numerous cracks on body; laminae almost entirely chipped off, leaving shiny spots and dioxide particles. Cf. Mon. Ant., XXX 1925, col. 639, fig. 28, from Saturnia; Not. Sc., 1915, p. 21, fig. 4b, from Chiusi, Museo Archeologico, Florence, from Poggio Buco and Saturnia; Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Mass., no. 64.827.Hearst Museum object 12 of 13 titled Olla, accession number 8-1563, described as Small olla. Description from Matteucig (1951): Jar; height: 14.5 cm; diameter: 14.8 cm (see Matteucig's plate V, 8). Red impasto. Clay red; red, red brown polished surface with black shiny particles. Globular jar with quatrefoil mouth; horizontal, slightly turned-up handles; small flat base. Above each handle, a laminated lead maeander (fig. 8b); between handles, laminated triangles with apex at the base of neck (fig. 8a). Mouth almost entirely restored; numerous cracks on body; laminae almost entirely chipped off, leaving shiny spots and dioxide particles. Cf. Mon. Ant., XXX 1925, col. 639, fig. 28, from Saturnia; Not. Sc., 1915, p. 21, fig. 4b, from Chiusi, Museo Archeologico, Florence, from Poggio Buco and Saturnia; Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Mass., no. 64.827.Hearst Museum object 13 of 13 titled Olla, accession number 8-1563, described as Small olla. Description from Matteucig (1951): Jar; height: 14.5 cm; diameter: 14.8 cm (see Matteucig's plate V, 8). Red impasto. Clay red; red, red brown polished surface with black shiny particles. Globular jar with quatrefoil mouth; horizontal, slightly turned-up handles; small flat base. Above each handle, a laminated lead maeander (fig. 8b); between handles, laminated triangles with apex at the base of neck (fig. 8a). Mouth almost entirely restored; numerous cracks on body; laminae almost entirely chipped off, leaving shiny spots and dioxide particles. Cf. Mon. Ant., XXX 1925, col. 639, fig. 28, from Saturnia; Not. Sc., 1915, p. 21, fig. 4b, from Chiusi, Museo Archeologico, Florence, from Poggio Buco and Saturnia; Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Mass., no. 64.827.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Olla, accession number 8-1563, described as Small olla. Description from Matteucig (1951): Jar; height: 14.5 cm; diameter: 14.8 cm (see Matteucig's plate V, 8). Red impasto. Clay red; red, red brown polished surface with black shiny particles. Globular jar with quatrefoil mouth; horizontal, slightly turned-up handles; small flat base. Above each handle, a laminated lead maeander (fig. 8b); between handles, laminated triangles with apex at the base of neck (fig. 8a). Mouth almost entirely restored; numerous cracks on body; laminae almost entirely chipped off, leaving shiny spots and dioxide particles. Cf. Mon. Ant., XXX 1925, col. 639, fig. 28, from Saturnia; Not. Sc., 1915, p. 21, fig. 4b, from Chiusi, Museo Archeologico, Florence, from Poggio Buco and Saturnia; Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Mass., no. 64.827.

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