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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2012.1.73
Title
Kantharos
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
7th century BCE
Places
Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Etruria
Period
Orientalizing period
Culture
Etruscan
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/175359

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Terracotta
Technique
Wheel-made
Dimensions
6.9 x 7.6 x 8.6 cm (2 11/16 x 3 x 3 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • label: Graffito on bottom of vessel "XX".

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Bernheimer's Antique Arts, Cambridge, MA] (by 1963), sold; to the Alice Corinne McDaniel Collection, Department of the Classics, Harvard University (1963-2012), transfer; to the Harvard Art Museums 2012.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Transfer from the Alice Corinne McDaniel Collection, Department of the Classics, Harvard University
Accession Year
2012
Object Number
2012.1.73
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Small, perhaps miniature, impasto kantharos. The body of the vessel is ribbed; the neck is wide, and the mouth flares outward at the lip. There are two vertical handles, joining the body at the top of the ribbed section and rising above the lip; there is an incised grove running vertically on each handle. On the base is a double X graffito.

Publication History

  • John Crawford, Sidney Goldstein, George M. A. Hanfmann, John Kroll, Judith Lerner, Miranda Marvin, Charlotte Moore, and Duane Roller, Objects of Ancient Daily Life. A Catalogue of the Alice Corinne McDaniel Collection Belonging to the Department of the Classics, Harvard University, ed. Jane Waldbaum, Department of the Classics (unpublished manuscript, 1970), P4, p. 54-55 [M. C. Marvin]

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