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Bucchero lion protome,
ca. 650–625 B.C.

Etruscan, 700 - 201 BCE

y1989-23

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Title

Bucchero lion protome

Dates

ca. 650–625 B.C.

Medium

Ceramic

Dimensions

11.8 x 5.2 x 5.2 cm (4 5/8 x 2 1/16 x 2 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Museum purchase, gift of John B. Elliott, Class of 1951

Object Number

y1989-23

Culture

Etruscan

Period

Bucchero

Type

ceramics, rhyta, vessels (containers)

Materials

ceramic

Subject

allover patterns, scale pattern, lions, meanders (patterns)

Museum purchase from Mathias Komor, NY, in 1989

"Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1989," <em>Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University </em>49, no. 1 (1990): p. 24-57., p. 29

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Etruscan (700 - 201 BCE), ca. 650–625 B.C., Bucchero lion protome. Ceramic; 11.8 x 5.2 x 5.2 cm. Museum purchase, gift of John B. Elliott, Class of 1951 (y1989-23)

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