Etrusco-Corinthian Bail Amphora

Culture: Etruscan

Period: around 600 B.C.

Material: Terracotta

Dimensions: 16.4 cm high

Price: Sold

Ref: 4092

Provenance: From the estate of Josef Strasser, Lannach, Styria, Austria. Acquired between 1960 and 1980.

Condition: Intact

Description: Painted with brown and red color pear-shaped amphora of light clay standing on a ring foot. On the rim a pulled up handle, the bale handle for suspension with a brown centre line. The long and towards the top tapering neck is decorated with three circulating brown ribbons, in between a circulating tenon decoration. The shoulder is fully decorated with thick brown and red bands. The corpus is painted with thin, finely drawn, parallel red-brown bands. The end of the vase as well as the ring foot fully covered in red color. At the bottom the inventory number E 69/73.