Terracotta situla (bucket)
A black-glazed terracotta situla, or bucket-shaped vessel, with a looped strap handle and a reddish footed base. Yellow dotted bands run around the body, and a yellow lion-head appliqué with a red mouth sits on the shoulder beside a pale appliqué.
Look closer: A small pale appliqué sits low on the body below the lion head, easy to overlook against the dark glaze.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- ca. 350–300 BCE
- Medium
- Terracotta
- Source
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Size
- 4000 × 4000 px
Public domain · The Metropolitan Museum of Art releases this image under CC0 (latest date -300).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (The Met Open Access, isPublicDomain=true)
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (The Met Open Access, isPublicDomain=true)
Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, The Abraham Foundation Inc. Gift, 1979