Two Rare Ancient Etruscan Blackware Amphora with incised designs
Two Rare Ancient Etruscan Blackware Amphora with incised designs ( repaired break and crack in the neck of the larger example )
Circa 650 – 630 BC
Size : 15 cm high – 6 ins high
10 cm high – 4 ins high
Circa 650 – 630 BC
Size : 15 cm high – 6 ins high
10 cm high – 4 ins high
Incredibly 20 th century modernist in style and design these ancient blackware 'bucchero' are exclusively an Etruscan product . The Etruscans were historically and artistically the most important of the indigenous peoples of pre Roman Italy . Modern research has now raised the status of Etruscan civilisation to a level that is demonstrably superior to the traditional picture of a poor relation of Greece and a mysterious prelude to Rome .
Two Rare Ancient Etruscan Blackware Amphora with incised designs
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