VesselsEtruscan6th-5th century BCE

Plate

600 BCE-475 BCE

Description

Light buff fabric with a darker buff semi-lustrous slip and semi-lustrous red paint. Disc base. The out-turned rim is decorated with lines of paint alternating with rows of dots running around the circumference. At the center of the plate are painted three concentric circles, alternating between solid and dotted lines. Only the top of the plate is slipped.

Classification

Vessels

Technique

Wheel-made

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Etruscan

Period

Archaic period to Classical

Century

6th-5th century BCE

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Department

Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics

Dimensions

1.7 x 14.2 cm (11/16 x 5 9/16 in.)

Provenance

Part of original McDaniel gift of 1943. Included in a non-comprehensive list of McDaniel objects dated October 25, 1946. The accompanying label reads "small vase for first fruits (?), found during lowering of the streets in the Forum Boarium, Rome, near the center of the area where also were found two altars. Found by M. Hammond in Jan. 1939. To McDaniel Collection Oct. 1959." It is quite possible that this note has been mistakely associated with this object, particularly since it appears on the 1946 McDaniel list. Cf. Beazley and Magi, pl. 1, fig. 95. many other examples are cited here and in J. D. Beazley, Etruscan Vase Painting (Oxford 1947) p. 296.