VesselsItalic6th century BCE
Amphora with Two Bands of Impressed Decoration: Horses and Horsemen
550-500 BCE
Dimensions
29.5 × 18.8 cm (11 5/8 × 7 3/8 in.)
Provenance
Excavated from Tomb V, Poggio Sommavilla, Italy by Fausto Benedetti, Italy (1896-1897), sold; to Joseph Clark Hoppin, Boston (1897-?). Miss Elizabeth Gaskell Norton, Boston, MA and Miss Margaret Norton, Cambridge, MA (by 1920), gift; to the Fogg Museum, 1920. Note: The Misses Norton were daughters of Charles Eliot Norton (1827-1908).
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