Etruscan oil vessel

A red terracotta black-glazed squat lekythos used to contain oil with a small footed base, a globular body with a curved shoulder, an applied loop handle, a narrow neck that tapers from a broad neck base, and a funnel mouth with flat rim. It bears no decoration.  Gifted to Monash by Sir Louis Matheson.

Object number: 127.059.

Date: 3^rd century BCE

Parallels: For a similar example with a slender body see Yale, Yale University Art Gallery 1913.462; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art 41.162.237;

References: Baur, P. V. C., Catalogue of the Rebecca Darlington Stoddard Collection of Greek and Italian Vases at Yale University, 1st ed., New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1922.

Photo by Steve Morton