Terracotta jug in the shape of a siren

Period:
Archaic
Date:
ca. 550–500 B.C.
Culture:
Etruscan
Medium:
Terracotta; bucchero pesante
Dimensions:
H. 11 7/16 in. (29.1 cm)
Classification:
Vases
Credit Line:
Rogers Fund, 1918
Accession Number:
18.145.25
  • Description

    The siren, a mythological creature that was part woman and part bird, was a popular motif for bucchero vases.

  • References

    Richter, Gisela M.A. 1921. "Classical Accessions: Etruscan Pottery." Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 16(5): p. 104, fig. 2.

    Richter, Gisela M. A. 1940. Handbook of the Etruscan Collection. New York: Marchbanks Press, pp. 40, 43, fig. 126.

    Camporeale, Giovannangelo. 1973 1974. "Vasi Plastici di Bucchero Pesante.". Archeologia Classica 25 26: p. 117, pl. XXX, 1, 2.

    Camerini, Emilio. 1985. Il Bucchero Etrusco. Rome: Gruppo Archeologico Romano, pl. XXXIX, 2.

    Picón, Carlos A. and Richard Daniel de Puma (ed.). 2007. Art of the Classical World in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Greece, Cyprus, Etruria, Rome. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, no. 321, pp. 277, 469-70.

    de Puma, Richard Daniel. 2013. Etruscan Art in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New Haven and London: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press, no. 4.85, pp. 8, 105-7.

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