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MM 1956:144 :: biconical urn

Object description: Out-turned, almost flat rim. Vide neck, tapering upwards. Biconical body, indraw between body and neck. Slightly raised handle just below the indraw. Decoration: Lower body has groups of incised patterns and small, rounded depressions. Horizontal insised lines also on neck. Human bones inside. Dark, coarse clay.

Data elements
References (4)

Inventory number

MM 1956:144

Serie nummer

4457

Object

biconical urn

Country - Findspot

Italy : Europe

Place - Findspot

Cerveteri

Material

Pottery; Human remains; Earthenware; Clay

Material, Swedish

Keramik; Lera; Keramik

Acquisition

From the ”Italian exchange collection”, Museo di Villa Giulia.

Description

Out-turned, almost flat rim. Vide neck, tapering upwards. Biconical body, indraw between body and neck. Slightly raised handle just below the indraw. Decoration: Lower body has groups of incised patterns and small, rounded depressions. Horizontal insised lines also on neck. Human bones inside. Dark, coarse clay.

Time - Manufacturing, earliest

c. 600-500 BC

Period

Archaic (Etruscan)

Period, Swedish

Arkaisk (Etruskisk); ca 600-500 f.Kr.

Exhibition - Previously

Etruskerna i 3D

Time - Start: 2012-02-102012-02-10
Time - End: 2012-09-022012-09-02

Room 10, 1989-2008

Description: Room 10, Central hall, permanent exhibition. There have been some small changes during the years.
In 2006 the multiculture showcase was installed and the two other showcases were painted.
Time - Start: 19891989
Time - End: 20082008

Exhibition, Part of - Previously