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MS553

Location: On Display in the Greece Gallery

From: Italy | Etruria | Vulci

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number MS553
Current Location Greece Gallery - On Display
Culture Greek | Etruscan
Provenience Italy | Etruria | Vulci
Manufacture Location Corinth
Creator Scale Painter
Locus Tomb 5
Period Early Corinthian
Date Made 620-590 BCE
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Iconography Gorgoneion | Sphinx | Lion | Horseman | Horse | Tripod | Panther | Dancer | Eagle | Stag
Description

Intact. Three zones of decoration. "In the center of the upper zone a gorgoneion. On either side of the gorgoneion, sphinxes, and under the handle, a lion. Approximately centered beneath the gorgoneion in the second zone are a pair of horsemen with a prize tripod between them...Behind either horseman is a panther. Between them under the handle a padded dancer...In the lowest zone, approximately under the tripod, a spead eagle, flanked by lions, and under the handle, a grazing stag." (Dohan) On bottom: old label inscribed GC42.

Height 35.9 cm
Outside Diameter 17.8 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Francesco Mancinelli-Scotti, 1896
Other Number 7 - Stevenson Etruscan Series Number

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