Czére Andrea szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei (Budapest, 2008)

JÁNOS GYÖRGY SZILÁGYI: Archaic Pottery from Veii

The shape begins in the Late Geometric: this variant appears around the start of the seventh century and remains popular at least until the end. Variations of shape and decoration show no organic development.'' The handle zone is often decorated with simple linear motifs: there are no examples of this cup type with figure decoration/' Examples imported from Corinth were imitated all over Italy, especially in workshops in Etruria, Latium, and Campania/ Clay colour and decoration show that the present piece is without doubt one of these Italic imitations. Exact parallels occur north of Veii up to Cosa,

8 the territory of Chiusi,

9 and southwards from Satricum

111 to Capua,

11 sometimes in securely dated late seventh-to early sixthcentury contexts. 3. KYLIX. Wheel-made. Brownish-yellow clay (7.5YR 7/4-7/6), dark red-brown glaze (5YR 5/4-5/6). Height: 8,25 cm; diameter of mouth: 13,7 cm; diameter of base: 4,1 cm; width (with handles): 19 cm. One handle glued back (pi. 3). Slightly rounded body tapering downwards; low stepped ring base; the shoulder extends a little into the inside of the body. Lip almost vertical and very slightly flared; handles horizontal. Unevenly glazed inside and out, with the exception of the inner side of handles and the shoulder underneath the handles, the handle zone and the base of the foot, on to which the glaze has dripped. Thick wavy line in handle zone on both sides. A late variant of the Corinthian kotyle: the body is lower, the foot broader, and the articulation of the different parts less sharp than in the type of the previous piece.

12 Similar pieces from local workshops occur not only in Veii,

13 but in other find-spots of southern Etruria, especially Caere

14 and Tarquinia,

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" and also the ager Faliscus

16 and Campania.

17 The handle zone is often undecorated as on Corinthian examples; imitations of these from Italic workshops occur as far as Sicily.

18 The shape is favoured also in Etruscan bucchero.

19 The wave motif goes back to Greek archetypes, but it is popular in archaic pottery

7 workshops all across Italy.

20 ETRUSCO-CORINTHIAN CUP BUDAPEST. PRIVATE COLLECTION