Pottery vessel. This cup has a semi-globular body with flat base, slightly convex neck and flared rim. The handle which attaches to the side, extends above the rim. The body is decorated with impressed vertical lines. [MOBB [OPS move] 03/05/2016]

Collection type: Object
Description: Pottery vessel. This cup has a semi-globular body with flat base, slightly convex neck and flared rim. The handle which attaches to the side, extends above the rim. The body is decorated with impressed vertical lines. [MOBB [OPS move] 03/05/2016]
Long description: Bucchero cup with loop handle, excavated at Orvieto.
Geographical reference: Italy
Europe > Southern Europe > Italy; Umbria Provincia di Terni Orvieto
Person: Field collector Odoardo Hillyer Giglioli; PRM source Miss K. Balfour
Date / Period: Archaeological period: Iron Age Etruscan
Date collected: By 1933
Acquisition information: Donated: 1933
Materials and processes: Material Pottery, Process Fire-Hardened, Process Burnished, Process Impressed
Dimensions: Height: max 113 mm, Width: max 100 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1933.42.1
Research and responses: According to the Encyclopedia Britannica Online, bucchero ware is the name of a type of Etruscan earthenware pottery common in pre-Roman Italy chiefly between about the 7th and early 5th century BC. Characteristically, the ware is black, sometimes grey, and often shiny from polishing. [CW 15/3/2000]

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