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Small alabastron

Date

600 B.C.

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Etruscan

Department

Vessels

Institution

Getty Museum

Miniature alabastron of light buff fabric with perforated lug handle set vertically and attached at top to lip. Piriform body with rounded base and small circular depression cut into it. Ornament of bands in brown slip. Top side of mouth has two concentric circles; lip edge shows single band. Below this, tonguelike verticals descend to approximately the middle of the body. On lower body, four bands of varying width.

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