Previous image 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 / 8 Next image

Unknown Maker, Etruscan

Jar with lid (stamnos)
Now On View

Maker

Unknown Maker, Etruscan

Culture

Etruscan

Title

Jar with lid (stamnos)

Year

late 300s BCE-early 200s BCE

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Materials

bronze

Geography

Etruscan

Dimensions

38 x 3.9 cm (14 15/16 x 1 9/16 inches) (jar and rim)

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Mary B. Jackson Fund

Object Number

35.791

Type

Publications

  • Journal

Manual / Issue 15: Green

RISD Museum’s Manual 15 Celebrates Green

New life is always shown to us through mokingpu, the color green-the light green stems of rabbitbrush, one of the few colors seen the winter; the tender green shoots of new corn that emerge in the spring against the backdrop of the dry brown earth. Green offers hope. Green represents life.

-Susan Sekaquaptewa

A welcome splash of color after a long winter, the RISD Museum’s fifteenth issue of Manual is awash in shades of green, celebrating the color's myriad associations with nature and growth, environmentalism and sustainable practices, newness and hope (as well as poison and currency) and delving into the histories of specific pigments and processes. Manual 15 opens with an introductory essay by Hopi grower Susan Sekaquaptewa, who details the soft hues of the flora of Northern Arizona. “You appreciate plants more when you develop a relationship with them,” she explains.

This issue of Manual is supported in part by a grant from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, through an appropriation by the Rhode Island General Assembly and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional generous support is provided by the RISD Museum Associates and Sotheby’s.

Exhibition History

Ancient Greek and Roman Galleries
Sep 22, 2010

Label copy

Used to store liquids, stamnoi were wide-mouthed jars with lids and two horizontal handles. In Etruria, the handles of stamnoi often took the form of hands. When the vessel is picked up, the hands on the handles become directly associated with the hands of the person who carries the vessel. The beautiful dark blue and rich green patina on the surface of the stamnos results from the bronze’s oxidation process over a long period of time.

Related Objects

More objects +

Image use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use.

Public Domain This object is in the Public Domain and available under a CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication

Tombstone

Unknown Maker, Etruscan
Jar with lid (stamnos), late 300s BCE-early 200s BCE
Bronze
38 x 3.9 cm (14 15/16 x 1 9/16 inches) (jar and rim)
Mary B. Jackson Fund 35.791

To request new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.