Carlotta - the museum database

MM 1965:027 :: olpe

Object description: Round mouth with everted rim; concave neck with a ring at its base; ovoid body; ribbed band handle; rotelles on rim, on either side of the handle; bevelled ring base; buff clay, lustrous surface; decoration: the rim, neck and handle is painted brown on the exterior as well as the interiorthe decoration is divided into three friezes depicting animals painted in dark brown and maroon on a light yellowish-brown ground; the frieze below the neck depicts a sfinx turning right, a grazing deer and a roaring lion turning left; the second frieze depicts two wild boar turning right and a lion turning left, a fourth animal (a bird, prob. a swan) is barely visible next to the lion; the third frieze depicts a lion and a grazing deer turning right, a panther turning left and a wild boar turning right; in-between the animals are brown dot-rosettes; on each the rotelle is a similar rosette, but in white paint; the figures in the third frieze stand on a broad brown band below; brown rays shoot up from the base to that same broad band.

Data elements
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Inventory number

MM 1965:027

Serie nummer

3260

Object

olpe

Country - Findspot

Italy : Europe

Place - Findspot

Vulci

Material

Earthenware; Clay; Pottery

Material, Swedish

Keramik

Context

Grave no. 72

Acquisition

Reported to have come to the museum on 18 January 1965.

Description

Round mouth with everted rim; concave neck with a ring at its base; ovoid body; ribbed band handle; rotelles on rim, on either side of the handle; bevelled ring base; buff clay, lustrous surface; decoration: the rim, neck and handle is painted brown on the exterior as well as the interiorthe decoration is divided into three friezes depicting animals painted in dark brown and maroon on a light yellowish-brown ground; the frieze below the neck depicts a sfinx turning right, a grazing deer and a roaring lion turning left; the second frieze depicts two wild boar turning right and a lion turning left, a fourth animal (a bird, prob. a swan) is barely visible next to the lion; the third frieze depicts a lion and a grazing deer turning right, a panther turning left and a wild boar turning right; in-between the animals are brown dot-rosettes; on each the rotelle is a similar rosette, but in white paint; the figures in the third frieze stand on a broad brown band below; brown rays shoot up from the base to that same broad band.

Time - Manufacturing, earliest

625-600 BC

Period

Orientalising (Etruscan)

Period, Swedish

Orientaliserande (Etruskisk)

Exhibition - Current

Study Gallery

Description: Upstairs, in interaction with the Baghdad Cafe, opened in February 2009, the upper gallery. A rich variety of objects retrieved from the museum's storerooms, many of them shown for the first time. A series of booths filled to the brim with beautiful vases functions as a traditional study collection of ancient ceramics. Other booths highlights the thematic elements of the ancient world: the subject of everyday and festive, and images of gods, humans and animals. (www.medelhavsmuseet.se, 2009-07-13, google translate).
Time - Start: 2009-022009-02

Exhibition, Part of - Current