askos

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Object Type
Museum number: 1772,0320.141
Description: A cylindrical black burnished Bucchero askos with rounded ends, four lug feet, a funnel shaped spout and an arched handle. The shape has zoomorphic qualities. No sheen.
Cultures/periods: Etrusco-Campanian; Archaic Period (Etruscan)
Production date: 570BC-5thC BC(early)
Production place: Made in: Campania (probably)
Materials
Ware
Type series
Technique
Dimensions: Diameter: 49 millimetres (rim); Height: 138 millimetres (measured to rim)
Curator's comments: Tom Rasmussen. ‘Campanian bucchero pottery.’ Italian Iron Age Artefacts in the British Museum. Papers of the Sixth British Museum Classical Colloquium, 1982, edited by Judith Swaddling. London: British Museum Publications Ltd, 1986. p. 273-281. fig. 16.
Bibliographic references: Old Catalogue / A Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum (No. 61); Etruscan Bucchero / A Catalogue of Etruscan Bucchero in the British Museum (No. 23); CVA British Museum 7 / Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 10, British Museum 7 (IVBa p. 24, 7); Swaddling 1986 / Italian Iron Age artefacts in the British Museum : papers of the sixth British Museum Classical Colloquium (p. 275)
Location: On display (G71/dc9)
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1772
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1772,0320.141

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