Etruscan pottery

Terracotta holmos (stand). Etruscan, from the Archaic period, 700–650 B.C.. "Many elements of these large terracotta stands, especially the perforations and bosses, indicate that their designs are based on metallic prototypes imported to Italy from the ancient Near East." Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

A LARGE ETRUSCAN BUCCHERO POTTERY HYDRIA, CIRCA 6TH CENTURY B.C. (a bucchero is a drinking vessel, a hydria is a water storage and transport vessel)

CIRCA 650 B.C.

At center, infernal daemon represented as a Wolf-man. According to some scholars, this figure represents the soul of a man bound to the world of the dead. The Etruscan demonizing conception transforms this figure in a man-wolf, a daemon-wolf. Therefore the "monster" could be identified as a restless soul: primarily the spirit of people who had not received a ritual burial, or who had died violently or prematurely. See the cinerary urn - Volterra, Museo Guarnacci - depicting an enchained…

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CIRCA 4TH CENTURY B.C.

CIRCA 625-600 B.C.

Gran-Aymerich, Jean. 2008. "Les Étrusques, la Méditerranée occidentale et les vases à parfum." Parfums de l'Antiquité : la rose et l'encens en Méditerranée. p. 104, fig. 2c, Mariemont: Musée Royal de Mariemont

Property from a Private CollectionThree Etruscan Bucchero-Ware Vessels7th/6th Century B.C.comprising an oinochoe with