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MM 1966:006 :: tripod vessel

Object description: Flaring rim; plastic decoration attached to rim and handle: a male figure with marked ears and nose behind two animals with long heads, his arms outstreched over the backs of the animals which stand with their hindlegs on the handle and the front legs on the rim; vertical handle from base of neck to shoulder; biconical body; three rounded feet. Brown-black impasto; burnished.

Data elements
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Inventory number

MM 1966:006

Serie nummer

3330

Object

tripod vessel

Material

Earthenware; Clay; Pottery

Material, Swedish

Keramik

Acquisition

Purchased at the auction of Ars Antiqua, Lucerne, June 1966.

Description

Flaring rim; plastic decoration attached to rim and handle: a male figure with marked ears and nose behind two animals with long heads, his arms outstreched over the backs of the animals which stand with their hindlegs on the handle and the front legs on the rim; vertical handle from base of neck to shoulder; biconical body; three rounded feet. Brown-black impasto; burnished.

Period

Orientalising (Etruscan)

Time - Manufacturing, earliest

725-675 BC

Period, Swedish

725-675 f.Kr.; 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