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Cup with fillet decoration on lip

Late 7th century B.C.
Policoro, Museo Archeologico Nazionale della Siritide
Inv. 205334

 

The shape is typical of the ware imported by the first Greek colonists to arrive in the West. Found in the necropolis of Alianello, it comes from a woman's grave goods comprising personal ornaments, gowns and cups.

APPROFONDIMENTI

The implements of the symposium: the pre-colonial stage

Already in the 2nd millennium B.C., very close relations between Greece and southern Italy had been established. Significantly, the classical sources place the transmigration of the Oenotrians across the Adriatic Sea around the middle of the 2nd millennium. The name of this people is usually linked to oinotron, "vineyard pole". In central Italy, wine production developed through various stages, starting from the places where Aegean-Mycenaean merchants and voyagers arrived along the southern coast.