Terracotta brazier
One of the braziers (96.18.96, ca. 600 B.C.) is decorated with two different cylinder stamps, one showing a standard animal procession, the other depicting a boar hunt that is known only from five examples excavated at San Giovenale. The other brazier (19.192.53, ca. 550 B.C.) is stamped with a scene of a man and two dogs chasing a hare into a net held by a second man. Such friezes were popular on Protocorinthian vases and Etruscan Pontic ware. The fragment (23.160.94, ca. 540–530 B.C.) depicts pairs of lions attacking a bull and a doe, a subject that was adapted by the Etruscans from Near Eastern and Greek prototypes and that also appears on the Monteleone Chariot (03.23.1), which is on view in this gallery.
Artwork Details
- Title: Terracotta brazier
- Period: Archaic
- Date: ca. 600–530 BCE
- Culture: Etruscan
- Medium: Terracotta; Caeretan Red Ware
- Dimensions: H. 4 7/8 in. (12.4 cm); diameter 18 11/16 in. (47.5 cm)
- Classification: Vases
- Credit Line: Purchase by subscription, 1896
- Object Number: 96.18.96
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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Etruscan
ca. 550 BCE
Etruscan
ca. 540–530 BCE
Tondo Group
ca. 325–300 BCE
Restituted
Etruscan
late 6th century BCE
Greek, South Italian, Campanian
4th century BCE
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