An ancient Villanovan dark brown impasto ware amphora; the vessel with a high foot, columnar neck ,and applied ribs and 'nipples' on each side.
Ca. 750-700 BC.
Height: 8 7/8 in. (22.5 cm).
Repaired at foot, otherwise intact.
The so-called Villanovans (named after a modern town near Bologna) were the Iron age predecessors of the Etruscans. They are thought to have settled the area of Etruria, roughly modern Tuscany, in the 11th century BC. By the fourth century BC the Villanovans were assimilated by the Etruscans and overcome by the neighboring Gauls.
Confer: Ines Jucker, "Italy of the Etruscans," (Mainz, 1991), p. 155, no. 179.
Formerly in the collection Eleanor Hilowitz, New York, acquired between 1956 and 1975.
GUARANTEED AUTHENTIC
Villanovan Impasto Amphora
Inv #: 2852
$3,750
HIXENBAVGH
ANCIENT ART
