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Excavations beside the North-West Gate at Veii 1957–58 Part II*.The Pottery

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 August 2013

Leslie Murray Threipland
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The pottery from the sites excavated in 1957 and 1958 came, in the main, from two strata: the earlier occupation material on, and thrown over, the scarp on the western edge of the knoll on the north side of the north-west gate and the tips of the great earth and stone rampart of the fifth-century Etruscan defences. The former consists of two groups which are drawn and described as such below, Groups Al and A2. The latter is made up of a variety of sherds dating from the seventh, sixth and fifth centuries B.C., probably scraped up from the surface earth nearby in the making-up of the rampart, so that only representative sherds have been published as types of some particular ware, as dating evidence, or as comparative material. The cuniculi found in both years' excavations, apparently broken into and deliberately filled prior to the building of the rampart and the rampart wall, contained, as well as a number of earlier sherds, a quantity of three specialised pottery types, and these have been published fully, Groups B, C and D.

There are, in addition several small stratified groups. First the early material: Group A3 on the eastern side of the knoll, and, on the western side, the filling of the post-holes and gullies of the earliest timber structures. Both these are considered with Groups Al and A2.

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Papers of the British School at Rome , Volume 31 , Issue 1 , November 1963 , pp. 33 - 73
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Copyright © British School at Rome 1963

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References

1 Cf. Dohan, p. 3 for the occurrence of mica in her notes on ‘Ceramic Technique’.

2 The material from Giglioli's excavations in the Grotta Gramiccia cemeteries, now in the Villa Giulia, is being prepared for publication by Sig.na Anna Paola Vianello. An interim publication of the Quattro Fontanili excavations, conducted on behalf of the Superintendency by the Institute of Etruscology of Rome University and by the British School, is in preparation and will describe a representative series of tombs. I have received every facility for looking at this material and for quoting comparisons from it.

3 Cf. examples from the San Giovenale excavations, the Tolfa region, Chiaruccia, Torre, etc., B.P.I., ns. x, 65, 1955–1956, fig. 2Google Scholar; from Rome, , E.R. III, fig. 35, 18Google Scholar, E.R. II, fig. 79, 1; Ardea, , Skrifter Utgivna av Svenska Institut i Rom xxi, iii, Tav. VIIGoogle Scholar.

4 Cf. the material from the Tolfa area, where decorated Villanovan sherds and impressed cordoned vessels are found both in occupation levels, ibid. fig. 12, and funerary deposits ibid., figs. 10 and 11, from La Mattonara.

5 E.R. II, figs. 66–67, figs. 73–74, and E.R. III, fig. 35, 18, fig. 39, 4.

6 Sherds found at Q.F. (M.16. N and L. 14). Sig.na Vianello reports a dolium with finger-tip impressions on the rim and containing a red impasto olla, as a funerary urn from Grotta Gramiccia, Tomb No. 684.

7 E.g., at G.G. (GGX) PBSR, xxix, 1961, fig. 33, 21Google Scholar and Palm, Vac. XV, pl. XXIV, 6 etc.

8 Torre Chiaruccia, ibid., fig. 5, 2.

9 PBSR, xxix, 1961, fig. 33, 33BGoogle Scholar.

10 Q.F., G. 25, H. 13; Palm, Vac. XIX, pl. XXVIII, 10.

11 E.g., a group from Q.F., F. 16.

12 Palm, Vac. XV, XIX, pl. XXIV and pl. XXVIII.

13 ibid. Vac. X, pl. XXI, 1 and 2.

14 In the Villa Giulia, no. 804.

15 PBSR, op. cit., fig. 33, 21B.

16 ibid., fig. 40, 5.

17 ‘Excavations’ p. 53.

18 Five sherds with traces of combed pattern and dot not illustrated; also one with cord-impressed pattern, probably from the same pot as no. 1.

19 ‘Excavations’, p. 53, Section AA', level 3.

20 Only three illustrated.

21 Only one illustrated.

22 Three sherds with combed pattern and one with impressed cord pattern are not illustrated.

23 ‘Excavations’, p. 74, Section AA', levels 12, 13.

24 One sherd with combed pattern not illustrated.

25 ‘Excavations’, p. 50, fig. 6a.

26 See below p. 47, No. 6.

27 ‘Excavations’, p. 58 ff., fig. 6b.

28 ‘Excavations’, p. 62 ff., 6c, and 9.

29 ‘Excavations’, p. 43.

30 Information from Mrs. B. Redmayne.

31 ‘Excavations’, p. 70, pl. XXXI, levels 16–18.

32 I am grateful to Prof. Judson for this identification.

33 ‘Excavations’, p. 70, fig. 10.

34 ‘Excavations’, fig. 2, pl. XXIX, p. 44 and fig. 12, p. 68.

35 I am most grateful for the kindness of the excavators in allowing me to see this material.

36 N.S. 1907, p. 548, figs. 31–35.

37 A number of examples are shown in E.R. III, figs. 50 and 51.

38 Also in E.R. III as ‘sub-archaic painted ware’ figs. 50 and 51.

39 ‘Excavations’, p. 66 ff., fig. 6d.

40 P. 50 above.

41 P. 54 above.

42 v. PBSR, xxix, p. 32, where the whole existing circuit is thought to be uniform in character.

43 The body sherds, although identifiable as pieces of oven, cannot be attributed to any particular type. They came mainly from Group A2, but two pieces were from Group A1, one each from Pits 1 and 2, two from the Etruscan rampart and four from the top soil.

44 S. M. Puglisi, Civiltà Appenninka, 1st edit., 1958, p. 39, fig. 14.

45 I am grateful to the Swedish Institute for permission to see this material.

46 With other oven fragments, Nos. 11779–11780.

47 Puglisi, ibid., p. 39, tav. 3, 3.

48 Puglisi, , Mon. Ant., xli, fig. 8Google Scholar and fig. 20; E.R. III, fig. 32, 1 and 6, fig. 39, 9.

49 E.R. III, fig. 89, 2.

50 E.R. I, fig. 69 from the hut habitation.

51 Several surface finds of this oven type have been made at Veii.

52 Information from Sig.na Vianello.

53 PBSR, xxix, 1961, p. 14Google Scholar.

54 ibid., pp. 56–7.

55 Cf. a ram figurine in the same posture in Corinthian ware in the Castellani Collection (51981), Room 18, at the Villa Giulia; cf. also a wooden cosmetic box in the shape of a ram (51845) in Room 15, Villa Giulia.

56 Mon. Ant. xl, cc. 269–72, fig. 75.

57 N.S. 1889, figure on p. 63; PBSR, xxix, p. 31.

58 Mon. Ant. xliv, cc. 158–60, fig. 45.