Terracotta jug with griffin protome handle

Period:: Archaic

Date:: 1st half of the 6th century B.C.

Culture:: Etruscan

Medium:: Terracotta; bucchero

Dimensions:: H. with handle 8 1/8 in. (20.7 cm.)
H. without handle 6 5/8 in. (16.8 cm.)

Classification:: Vases

Credit Line:: Purchase, 1896

Accession Number:: 96.9.142

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 171

From the end of the seventh century to well into the sixth century B.C., in Etruria "cilindretto" ornament much like the band of impressed decoration on the body of this vase was very common. The patterns were often animal and plant motifs, human heads, and narrative scenes.

de Puma, Richard Daniel. 2013. Etruscan Art in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. no. 4.78, p. 101, New Haven and London: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Timelines
Italian Peninsula, 1000 B.C.-1 A.D.

Etruscan Art in The Metropolitan Museum

Department

Greek and Roman Art (17,248)

Object Type / Material

Geographic Location

Date / Era

1000 B.C.–A.D. 1 (16,730)

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