![]() Please note: Some museums permit photography of their exhibits for private, educational, scientific, non-commercial purposes only. bibliography: CVA Roma Musei Capitolini II, plates 4-9 museum / inventory number: Roma, Musei Capitolini, Palazzo dei Conservatori e Palazzo Nuovo 172 ![]() findspot: Caere (Cerveteri) (Castellani collection 172) potter (and painter): Aristonothos, signed on A: ΑΡΙΣΤΟΝΟΘΟΣ ΕΠΟΙ(Ε)ΣΕΝ (one of the earliest signatures) Aristonothos was a Greek immigrant working in the Etruscan pottery workshop of Caere the letters mostly follow the alphabet of Chalkis on Euboia, the style reminds of protoattic vases description A: Odysseus at the left end of the cave, 4 of his comrades blinding Polyphemos In Etruria such models of oriental origin and influences from the Greek world, also a participant in the Orientalizing phenomenon, coexisted, in the years when the Homeric poems were being recorded and two worlds encountered each other.English: object type / vase shape: footed krater, painted in silhouette technique Together with an architecture, sculpture and painting of monumental character, is introduced alphabetic writing, a Phoenician invention, but in this case based on a model developed by the Greeks of Euboea. Etruscan civilization, at its magnificent beginnings, sees the birth of the urban phenomenon. Against a background of Phoenician expansion and Greek colonization prestige goods were introduced into the West along with ideas and wisdom deriving from Egypt, from the Aegean and the Near East. 730-580 B.C.), Etruria participated in a widespread cultural phenomenon that encompassed the entire Mediterranean basin: an extraordinary epoch that saw the displacement of people, the circulation of goods and of ideas, and the growth of wealth. ![]() During the phase termed “Orientalizing” (ca. ![]()
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