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METRU.MENECE: an Etruscan painted inscription on a mid-5th-century BC red-figure cup from Populonia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

David W.J. Gill
David W.J. Gill*
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Department of Classics, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU
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Abstract

Pottery is so ubiquitous among the material we have surviving from later periods that it is easy to think that ancient people occupied a world which was as stuffed with broken sherds as the layers we excavate; and ceramics seem especially important when they are as handsome and archaeologically informative as classical vases. Starting with a single sherd from Populonia, David Gill takes a different view of pottery, and its commercial transport, in the classical Mediterranean.

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Antiquity , Volume 61 , Issue 231 , March 1987 , pp. 82 - 87
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1987

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