Cockerel Vase


650-600 BC Etruscan
Terracotta/ Bucchero (Shiny black surface made to emulate metal)

This small vase was most likely used as an ink container. The inscription around the middle is the 26 letter alphabet. The tail is missing but is assumed to have acted as a third leg. The head is detachable and was probably attached to the body by a chord.

“Terracotta Vase in the Shape of a Cockerel.” The Met’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History, www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/24.97.21ab/.

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