Black ware pottery drinking cup with a high handle and small boss on the dorsal face of the handle. [ASh [OPS move] 27/04/2016]

Collection type: Object
Description: Black ware pottery drinking cup with a high handle and small boss on the dorsal face of the handle. [ASh [OPS move] 27/04/2016]
Long description: Black ware pottery drinking cup with a high handle and small boss on the dorsal face of the handle. It is decorated with three horizontal parallel lines, which echo the curve of the vessel as it draws towards the foot and base. [ASh [OPS move] 27/04/2016]
Geographical reference: Italy
Europe > Southern Europe > Italy
Person: Field collector Unknown Collector; PRM source Hampshire County Museums Service
Date / Period: Date made: Circa 700 BC Archaeological period: Iron Age Etruscan
Date collected: By 1994
Acquisition information: Transferred: 01/1994
Materials and processes: Material Pottery, Process Thrown, Process Incised
Dimensions: Height: max 125 mm including handle, Width: max 128 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1994.4.17
Research and responses: Very similar to another item in the PRM collection, 1884.41.19. The catalogue card for this item describes it as Bucchero ware. It also gives a reference to Rasmussen, 'Bucchero Pottery from Southern Etruria', pp. 115-116, 198.
This object was examined by Lucy Shipley as part of the Fell funded project Characterizing the World Archaeology Collections. She described this piece as a Rasmussen type 1e vessel, (Rasmussen 2006, 196 no.189); a small drinking cup with a high handle and small boss on the dorsal face of the handle. It is decorated with three horizontal parallel lines, which echo the curve of the vessel as it draws towards the foot and base. See RASMUSSEN, T. 1979: Bucchero Pottery from Southern Etruria (Cambridge). [AS 04/11/2010]

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