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Plate

Date

550 B.C.

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Etruscan

Department

Vessels

Institution

Getty Museum

Shallow plate on high ring base with two small perforations at the top. On the floor, a large bird (waterfowl) perched on a curved branch or groundline facing right. Two small swastikas in field above and below bird's tail. Tondo framed by a pair of concentric lines with short interconnecting verticals in six groups of six wavy strokes each, and a seventh group with only three strokes. The wide rim shows nine groups of six zig zags each, framed by double lines. The outermost edge continues the tondo frame motif but has ten groups of nine verticals each. The exterior has a cross-shaped motif at the center surrounded by alternating groups of six short verticals on the ring base. The rim shows ten groups of six zigzags each with contentric lines. Possibly painted to resemble a wooden cart wheel.

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