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| Type of Object: | Vessel |
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| Materials: | Clay |
| Measurements: | Various |
| Date or Period: | 530 - 520 B.C. |
| Maker: | Caeretan |
| Designated List Section: | IIIB1a Ceramic Vessels -- Local Etruscan |
| Date of Import Restriction: | 01/23/2001 |
| Photograph: | Direzione Generale per i Beni Archeologici |
| Copyright: | Ministry of Culture |
| Description of Designated List Category Subject to Import Restrictions: | |
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| Decorated ceramic vessels produced by Etruscan culture including Villanovan; Orientalizing pottery with imitations of Near Eastern designs painted on local hand-made vessels; archaic Etruscan painted pottery with polychrome decoration; funerary and cinerary vessels; Italo-Geometric pottery where production from local Etruscan workshops imitated Greek Geometric; bucchero made with a characteristic soft black paste and polished surface whose highly decorative shapes often imitate metal vessels; local imitations of black and red figure Attic; Etruscan imitations of Corinthian pottery; pottery with black glaze and orange stripes that imitates Ionic pottery; amphora in the Pontic style with painted figural decoration made by a single workshop of immigrant Ionic potters in Vulci, Etruria; Caeretan hydria attributed to a workshop of Greek immigrants working near Caere, Etruria. Approximate date: 9th c. to 3rd c. B.C. This example is a two-handled water jar (hydria) made by a Greek potter in Caere with polychrome painted floral friezes which frame a central band with a mythological scene depicting the rape of Europa.. | |
| Keywords: | |
| Caeretan, ceramic, Etruscan, jar, vessel, |
