Etrusco-Roman Storage Jar

Title: Etrusco-Roman Storage Jar
Inventory Number: A0232
Date Acquired: 1909
Source: Magoffin
Provenance: Italy
Description: Large piniform jar with max D ca mid-height on flat base and outturned rim, of a type frequently used as a cremation burial urn. Particularly prominent wheel marks on interior, more irregular on exterior which presumably smoothed.
State of Preservation: Slight chipping around interior rim and exterior of base; surface pitted with small holes particularly toward exterior of base where grits dissolved. Sporadic incrustation all over exterior, interior almost completely cover with incrustation.
Height: 27.8 cm
Max Diameter: 23.6 cm
Rim Diameter: 22.8 cm
Base Diameter: 8.35 cm
Color: Clay body 10R 6/8 (light red); mottling/staining ca 10R 5/1 (reddish gray); interior encrustation ca 10YR 6/2 (light brownish gray).
Type: vessel
Material: fired clay