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| Descriptive Attribute | Value(s) |
|---|---|
| Title | Inscribed Bucchero Foot |
| Primary photo | False |
| Photo Type | Cataloged Artifact |
| Photo ID | 3339 |
| Album ID | 254 |
| Description | Bucchero vessel fragments preserving portions of a straight sided conical base. Frag. A preserves a large portion of the finished base as well as decoration on the exterior rendered in three registers. The lowest register, running about 0.005m from the base, is a row of incised or stamped, inverted triangles. Ten triangles are preserved. The second register is a downward pointing double lotus palmette chain. The heads of the palmettes are surmounted by three radial projections. Four palmettes are complete and portions of three others are preserved. The third register is a set of parallel incised lines running laterally across the piece. Above the third register is preserved a retrograde inscription. The inscription begins with fragments of two letters, one surmounting the other. The upper fragment consists of a horizontal stroke and the lower is a diagonal stroke. The next letter on the upper register is an epsilon which surmounts a rho. The upper register ends and the lower register continues with a lambda, an alpha, an iota, a theta, an iota, a nu with the final preserved letter being an alpha. Frag. B preserves a portion of the finished base, six downward pointing triangles, and portions of three lotus palmettes. Frag. C preserves several incised lines which form part of the inscription. One letter is a mu, followed by an iota. The upper register of letters is illegible. The letter above the mu consists of two adjoining diagonal strokes, suggesting it is either a mu or a nu. The fragment above the iota may be another letter formed by the conjunction of two diagonal lines, but this conclusion is tentative. The lowest line may be part of the upper line of the third register of the decoration on the foot. There is also a bag of small associated fragments which do not join. |
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Anthony Tuck. (2012) "19970127fragexterior.JPG from Europe/Italy/Poggio Civitate/Tesoro South Flank/Tesoro South Flank 0/1997, ID:355/PC 19970127". In Murlo. Anthony Tuck (Ed). Released: 2012-12-28. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/media/5c7acbf5-ecb7-40bf-4974-0168f59cb60e> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k2668dd2w
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