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MM 1965:016 :: kantharos

Object description: Kantharos with no lip and a straight wall narrowing towards a patterned carination leading to a flat foot. Foot is hollow underneath. High band handles set from rim to carination of body. the decorated carination has incised u’s. On interior is a depressed line at the same point.

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Inventory number

MM 1965:016

Serie nummer

4330

Object

kantharos

Country - Findspot

Italy : Europe

Place - Findspot

Vulci. Tomba N. 25-30/1 1962. Scavi Hercle.

Material

Clay; Earthenware; Pottery

Material, Swedish

Keramik

Exhibitions

Long term deposit at the University of Umeå.

Context

602/T.25.

Acquisition

Reported to have come to the National Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquitites the 18th January 1965.

Description

Kantharos with no lip and a straight wall narrowing towards a patterned carination leading to a flat foot. Foot is hollow underneath. High band handles set from rim to carination of body. the decorated carination has incised u’s. On interior is a depressed line at the same point.

Period

Etruscan

Period, Swedish

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