Tarquinia? / chalice / Ceramic

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Record Details

Object Identifier: 0000.00.2590
Object Name: chalice
Lot: Marburg Collection
Collections: Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
Object Type: Pottery
Materials: Ceramic
Design Style: Bucchero
Length: ;
Width: 15.0;
Height: 14.5;
Thickness: ;
Weight: ;461g
Pierced: no
Inscribed: yes
Full Artifact Description: Mended: foot and lower half of stem modern. Black clay with polished surface. Around exterior is band stamped from a cylinder containing the following units: 1) a man in a long straight peplos, seated to the right on a throne, beneath which is a bird; his left hand is raised as if to greet 2) a man wearing a loin cloth who is striding left and carrying a bow 3) a woman in a long belted peplos with her hair in a long braid stands facing left with a garland in her left hand and her right hand upraised 4) a woman clad similar to #3 faces left grasping the braid of #3 with her right hand and raising her left hand 5) a man apparently nude except for a belt stands facing right holding a spear as if on guard 6) a man in a long peplos is sitting to the right on a klismos holding a garland in his right hand; in front of him stands 7) a woman facing left dresses like #3 with a garland in her left hand and her right hand upraised. The complete scene is repeated four times with numbers 1-3 repeated five times.; Gazda: Drinking cup (chalice). Clay, bucchero sottile, cylinder-impressed and incised decoration. Stem and foot are restored.
Subjects: Deceased in underworld
Verbatim Date: 625 - 525 BC
Verbatim Provenance: Italy
Verbatim Site: Tarquinia?
Production Site: site
Countermark: no
Exhibition Title: Etruscan Exhibit; Case 06 - Etruria
Exhibition Curator: Gazda, Elaine
Exhibition Year: 1997
Publication Title: Passionate Curiosities: Tales of Collectors & Collections from the Kelsey Museum; Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum
Publication Author: Talalay, Lauren E.; Cool, Margaret Root; Van Ingen, Wilhelmina
Publication Year: 2015; 1933
Type Category: Ceramic

Technical Details

Collection: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection
Record: 0000.00.2590
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.2590/dscn8974.jpg

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Full citation: "Tarquinia?; chalice; Ceramic." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.2590/dscn8974.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 11, 2024.