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Jug with ribbed handle
Italic, Etruscan
Findspot: Vulci
Medium/Technique
Ceramic
Dimensions
Height: 28.1 cm (11 1/16 in.); diameter: 15.2 cm (6 in.)
Credit Line
Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number98.914
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
Catalogue Raisonné
Fairbanks, Vases (MFA), no. 445.
DescriptionThree bands of animals: (1) swans, (2) goats, panthers, boar, (3) goats, boars, lion. Repaired with slight restoration. Italo-Corinthian.
ProvenanceBy 1889: Prince Torlonia Collection (excavated at Vulci, 1889: Gsell, Fouilles de Vulci, tomb no. XLIX); by date unknown: with Edward Perry Warren (according to Warren's records: [one of the] Contents incomplete of an early VIth Cent tomb at Vulci [containing MFA vases 98.901-909, 912-914, 916, 920]); 1898: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren for $ 69,618.13 (this figure is the total price for MFA 98.641-98.940)