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Object Type: jar
Museum number: 1772,0320.87
Description: Pottery: Black, burnished Bucchero lidded jar Albore-Livadie Type 17A, with a plain burnished surface. Deep lid, with flaring knob. Poor sheen.
Cultures/periods: Etrusco-Campanian; Archaic Period (Etruscan)
Production date: 570BC-500BC
Production place: Made in: Campania (probably)
Materials: pottery
Ware: Etruscan Bucchero Ware
Type series: Albore-Livadie 17A
Technique: burnished
Dimensions: Height: 24.13 centimetres
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. no 22, fig. 15.
Bibliographic references: Old Catalogue / A Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum (No. 93); Etruscan Bucchero / A Catalogue of Etruscan Bucchero in the British Museum (No.137 and 137a); CVA British Museum 7 / Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 10, British Museum 7 (IVBa p. 24, 13); 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: Purchased from: Sir William Hamilton
Acquisition date: 1772
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1772,0320.87

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