The Orientalizing Bucchero from the Lower Building at Poggio Civitate (Murlo)Excavations at the Etruscan site of Poggio Civitate (Murlo) have produced some of the most spectacular and provocative material recovered from Etruria. This volume presents the reconstruction and study of a large assemblage of bucchero pottery recovered from the "Lower Building" at Poggio Civitate in deposits dating from the late Orientalizing period. Bucchero is a characteristic Etruscan ceramic type that is commonly found at Orientalizing and Archaic period Etruscan sites. This study represents the first major publication on bucchero from Poggio Civitate and also is one of the few studies of a large assemblage of bucchero recovered from a nonfunerary context. The author examines the chronology, style, and function of the bucchero and also considers the question of its place of production. The analysis of the bucchero from the Lower Building has important implications not only for the dating of the rest of the Orientalizing period ceramic assemblage at Poggio Civitate, but also for the dating and study of bucchero in Etruria as a whole. |
Contents
Chapter One The Site of Poggio Civitate | 7 |
Chapter Two The Lower Building | 15 |
Chapter Three Catalogue | 27 |
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Common terms and phrases
18 MURLO 6th century B.C. addition alabastron applied decoration Architectural Terracottas banquet service Black biscuit Bowl Fragment Bowl Type bronze bucchero vessels buccheroid Camporeale carination Castelnuovo Berardenga Cerveteri Cetona chalices Chiusi COMPARANDA convex body Cristofani curving dated Diam displays Donati Etruria Etruscan Etrusco-Corinthian examples excavation exterior finial Footed Bowl Fragment Fig Fragment Pl Fragment preserves frieze goddess Gran-Aymerich GRID grooves guilloche impasto incised Kantharos Kantharos Fragment Kyathos Handle Fragment Lower Building Mangani Mended Missing molded decoration motif Murlo Nielsen and Phillips noted oinochoai Oinochoe ORNAMENT TYPE Orvieto palmette parallels pieces Plate Fragment Poggio Buco Poggio Civitate potnia theron pottery Pres Puma Rasmussen Rathje recovered Rectangle Rim and Handle Roselle rosettes Scalloped Kyathos seventh century shallow sides similar shape Single fragment sixth century southern Etruria stamped decoration strap handle STRATUM Studi etruschi tion tomb Trench 18 Tripod Bowl UNPUBLISHED Upper Building vessel types Vetulonia Vulci Warden wings