Bucchero type burnished black pottery
640-620 BCE
Italy
The British Museum
Details
Culture/Civilisation
Etruscan
Theme
Later Civilisations of Land and Sea
Subtheme
The Mediterranean
Case Title
The Mediterranean World
Display Location
Coomaraswamy Hall
Findspot
Italy
Measurements
21.2 x (dia.) 20 cm
Accession Number
1839,0214.97
Description
Two linked spirals sit inside a ‘W’. The clay is burnished black to look like expensive bronze. Wine-jars like this were made for a banquet at home, a funeral feast, or a tomb. The Etruscans thrived in central Italy between 900–500 BCE, and shaped later Roman culture. Rome’s first kings were Etruscan.
