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

JÁNOS GYÖRGY SZILÁGYI: Archaic Pottery from Veii

body (with a different mouth and foot) is a well known bucchero form.

2. The frieze of running "dogs" (and sometimes rabbits) is also of Corinthian origin,

28 and entered Etruscan production from there, where it occurs mostly on small perfume jars, and only rarely on oinochai or other wine-pouring jugs.

29 Vincenzo Bellelli, the first scholar to attempt a systematic account of Etrusco-Corinthian "running dog" vases,

30 points out the difficulty of attributing friezes of this kind, which offer little scope for relative dating or painterly self-expression, in the absence of other criteria. Only with emphasis on these uncertainties is it possible to localise the present piece in the last quarter of the seventh century

7 or the beginning of the next century, and attribute it to one of the painters of the so-called Ferret Group (Gruppo del Furetto: the name is borrowed from Albizzati). From the known findspots of his attributed pieces, the artist probably was active at Veii, and can be distinguished (in a gesture of respect to the former owner of the vase) from the others of his Group as the Szőllősy Painter.

31 For the wavy line on the shoulder, see no. 3 above (kotyle), n. 20. 6. HANDLEEESS CUP. Wheel-made; creamy yellow clay (5YR 7/4-7/6), brownish-red glaze (2.5YR 5/6-6/6). Height: 4,9 cm; diameter of foot: 4,3 cm; diameter of mouth: 12,9 cm. Restored from two pieces; slight chipping along the break on edge of mouth (pi.

10-12). Hemispherical body with slightly broken profile; low, slightly concave torus base; narrow lip almost at right angle to body wdth two holes for suspension or to accommodate a lid. Brownish-red glaze on lip and part of body; round painted spot in middle of cup; around it a broad stripe; on outside of body three bands, the third crossing over onto side of foot and curving into a spiral on underside of base. The shape, according to a prevalent but inadequately supported hypothesis is of East Greek origin.

32 It was popular not only in Veii,

31 but in all parts of southern Etruria, especially Tarquinia,

14 the ager Faliscus and ager Capenas^ and examples have often been found in Latium as well, from Satricum to the environs of Rome.

36 It was clearly used primarily for eating, but there are only uncertain guesses about its main function.

1 It enjoyed a relatively long life, beginning around the middle of the seventh century, and remained popular in the last quarter of the seventh century and the first quarter of the sixth.