Etruscan Rim Fragment of a Large Terracotta Vessel in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, January 2018

Rim fragment of a large terracotta vessel

Period:Hellenistic

Date:3rd century B.C.

Culture:Etruscan

Medium:Terracotta; black-glaze

Dimensions:H. 8 11/16 in. (22 cm)

Classification:Vases

Credit Line:Purchase, Arthur Darby Nock Bequest, in memory of Gisela M. A. Richter, 1980

Accession Number:1980.11.11

Like so much of black-glaze pottery, this piece imitates a metal prototype. Metal vessels with handles modeled in the form of sleeping youths were sometimes used as cinerary urns. See, for example, the bronze handle 28.57.13 in this case.

Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/255682