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Lot Essay
PUBLISHED:
Y. Kurokawa, The Remains of Happiness, Dr. and Mrs. Kurokawa Collection, Japan, 1986, no. 45-1.
The Daunians were an Iapygian tribe who inhabited ancient Apulia between the eighth to fourth centuries B.C. Influenced by residual Bronze Age styles and possibly by Minoan culture from Crete, their art is the product of a wealth of different cultures. Our figure, hand-modelled, wearing a full, peplos-style layered dress and with a stylised polos headdress (now fragmentary), would have functioned as a bowl. Although their exact purpose remains uncertain, they were most likely used within a religious context as votive figures, possibly linked to funerary or fertility rites. Cf, E.M. de Julius, La rappresentazione figurata in Daunia, Bari, Edipuglia, 2009, p. 41, C1.
Y. Kurokawa, The Remains of Happiness, Dr. and Mrs. Kurokawa Collection, Japan, 1986, no. 45-1.
The Daunians were an Iapygian tribe who inhabited ancient Apulia between the eighth to fourth centuries B.C. Influenced by residual Bronze Age styles and possibly by Minoan culture from Crete, their art is the product of a wealth of different cultures. Our figure, hand-modelled, wearing a full, peplos-style layered dress and with a stylised polos headdress (now fragmentary), would have functioned as a bowl. Although their exact purpose remains uncertain, they were most likely used within a religious context as votive figures, possibly linked to funerary or fertility rites. Cf, E.M. de Julius, La rappresentazione figurata in Daunia, Bari, Edipuglia, 2009, p. 41, C1.