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Kyathos (Etruscan-bucchero ware)

ITALY, Rome
Kyathos (Etruscan-bucchero ware)
 early 6th century BCE

Medium
fired clay

Measurements
12.2 × 16.2 × 13.2 cm

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Accessioned, 1994

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Gallery location
Not on display

Artwork Details

Place/s of Execution
Italy

Accession Number
D159-1994

Department
Antiquities

Physical description
Cup-shaped bowl with a single, high-swung strap handle, flaring at each side just above the join at rim. The body is sharply carinated to form the shallow floor of the cup. The offset foot is a ring base with gently concave underside. Burnished black all over, the only decoration being a line of incised rouletting along the projection of the carination on the exterior, and two incised lines around the rim exterior.

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