VesselsEtruscan7th-2nd century BCE

Olpe Handle

7th-2nd century BCE

Classification

Vessels

Technique

Cast, lost-wax process

Medium

Bronze

Culture

Etruscan

Period

Archaic period to Hellenistic

Century

7th-2nd century BCE

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Department

Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics

Dimensions

14.5 x 5.2 cm (5 11/16 x 2 1/16 in.)

Provenance

Miss Elizabeth Gaskell Norton, Boston, MA and Miss Margaret Norton, Cambridge, MA (by 1920), gift; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1920. Note: The Misses Norton were daughters of Charles Elliot Norton (1827-1908).

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