A VILLANOVAN IMPASTO URN, of biconical form with everted rim and twin ribbed handles, the body with combed decoration, each side with three incised square panels within which is a swastika, the neck with encircling band of stepped pattern, one handle broken in antiquity, 9th-8th Century B.C.

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A VILLANOVAN IMPASTO URN, of biconical form with everted rim and twin ribbed handles, the body with combed decoration, each side with three incised square panels within which is a swastika, the neck with encircling band of stepped pattern, one handle broken in antiquity, 9th-8th Century B.C.
16in. (40.8cm.) high

拍品专文

The urn would have been used for a cremation burial, the mouth of the vessel being covered with a bowl or, in some men's graves, with a clay model helmet. A well-shaped grave was dug with a smaller shaft beneath it into which the urn was placed. The majority of urns have a single handle, but rare urns with two handles usually have one of these broken off, as above, as though to make the vessel unfit for use by the living. For a discussion of these cinerary urns and interpretation of the combed patterning, cf. H. Hencken, Tarquinia and Etruscan Origins, London, 1968, pp. 28-35 and 55-56, fig. 4, pls. 3-7, 49 and 94-98