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Italic-Mycenaean stemmed goblet

13th century B.C.
Metaponto, Museo Archeologico Nazionale
Inv. 47781-48130

 

Wine goblet from Termitito, a site that has yielded numerous finds of the Aegean type. Objects imported to the Mycenaean sites on the coast of southern Italy gave rise to imitation on the local level, even before the arrival of the colonists from Greece.

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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.