Descriptive Attribute	Value(s)
Chronology	Securely Orientalizing
Fabric Category	Bucchero
Object Type	Vessel
Year Excavated	1971
Motif	Potnia Theron Female
Decorative Technique	Incised Relief
Vessel Form	Form unspecified
Fragment Noted	false
Object Type (notes)	Potnia Theron Decorated Handle
Size	Max. Pres. Height 0.081 m, Pres. Width of Base 0.033 m, Width at Top 0.022 m, Thickness of Front Portion Through Relief 0.009 m, Back Portion: Thickness of Rectangular Section 0.005 m, Thickness of Ridge 0.005 m.
Condition	Broken at two ends; worn and encrusted; glued from two fragments; burnt.
Description	Fragment of finial-like handle of a buccheroid vessel with top, rounded edge bent slightly out over front, relief-decorated surface. Front surface has very blurred, rounded relief of a potnia thereon figure with oval head, roughly indicated chest and downward curving arms which appear to hold front paws of two long felines whose bodies cover the female figure, facing inward and extend to bottom of relief surface - rounded forms are pws, chests, heads, haunches, and thin hind legs. Definitely indicated by incision are eyes and mouth of a figure. Back of handle at the top, justting out, and extending about one-half of the way down, is part of a flat curved rectangular section to which is attached, down its center a projecting ridge - triangular in cross section.
Fabric Description	Buccheroid, burnt mottled gray.
Has note	The Poggio Civitate Excavation Project website originally included this object at this address: http://www.poggiocivitate.org/catalog/viewartifactcatalog.asp?fid=PC1971056100