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Like so much of black-glaze pottery, this piece imitates a metal prototype. Metal vessels with handles modeled in the form of sleeping youths were sometimes used as cinerary urns. See, for example, the bronze handle 28.57.13 in this case.
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Title: Rim fragment of a large terracotta vessel
Period: Hellenistic
Date: 3rd century BCE
Culture: Etruscan
Medium: Terracotta; black-glaze
Dimensions: H. 8 11/16 in. (22 cm)
Classification: Vases
Credit Line: Purchase, Arthur Darby Nock Bequest, in memory of Gisela M. A. Richter, 1980
Object Number: 1980.11.11
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