Illustrations of Artifact Categories Subject to U.S. Import Restriction

	Type of Object:	Vessel
	Materials:	Clay
	Measurements:	Various
	Date or Period:	Early 6th c. B.C.
	Maker:	Etruscan
	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:
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. Between c. 630 - 540 B.C. local Etruscan artisans developed imitations of Corinthian pottery. The shapes of the vessels are Greek with a polychrome black figure painted decoration and incised details. The decoration is organized into divided bands and includes real and imaginary animals and palmette fillers characteristic of Corinthian pottery. To these, local potters added motifs of Eastern Greek or local origin (human figures and wild goats). This example is an Etrusco-Corinthian wine pitcher (olpe) with bands of geometric and floral decoration and painted and incised scales.
Keywords:
ceramic, Etruscan, geometric decoration, incised, pitcher, vessel,