3525841 Terracotta vase in the shape of a cockerel, c. 650??00 BC (terracotta, bucchero) by Etruscan, (7th century BC); 10.3 high cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA; (add.info.: This small vase, inscribed with the twenty-six letters of the Etruscan alphabet, may have been a container for ink. The head acts as a stopper and could be attached to the bird??? body by a cord.); Etruscan, out of copyright.