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4.2.2 Buccheroid Impasto

This ware comprises a poorly defined group of products which contains forms similar to Bucchero forms but the fabric is rather coarser, or less well fired than Bucchero. The boundaries between Bucchero on one side and Impasto on the other are not clearly marked. Four different fabrics were identified.

Forms	Types
Bowls	Type 1, Type 2, Type 3, Type 4
Chalices	Type 1, Type 2
Cup	Type 1
Kantharos	Type 1

Bowls

Type 1

Plain rim slightly out turned, cf. Perkins and Walker 1990, fig.22. Date mid 7th-mid 6th century.

Type 2

Carinated bowl with vertical wall and flaring rim.

Fig. 12. Bowl type 2
© P Perkins 1997

The shape is similar to impasto bowl 9 and approaches the shape of a shallow chalice. The form, with or without a high foot is common throughout Etruria. A similar example is published in impasto from the upper Fiora valley (Donati and Michelucci 1981, 32 No.34, with bibliography). Date second-third quarter of the 7th century.

Type 3

Similar to type 2 but without a vertical wall, also occurs in impasto as bowl type 9, cf. Fig. 4.3.1.7. Date mid 7th century.

Type 4

Flaring footring.

Fig. 13. Bowl type 4
© P Perkins 1997

Date mid 7th to mid 6th century.

Chalices

Type 1

Small chalice probably on a high foot, similar to Rasmussen 1979 chalice 2. The illustrated example is decorated above the carination with a horizontal line of incised dashes.

Fig 14. Chalice type 1
© P Perkins 1997

Date last quarter 7th-first half 6th century.

Type 2

Carination of a chalice with two horizontal grooves above. Date last quarter seventh-first half sixth century.

Cup

Type 1

Tronco-conical bowl with a carination and off-set plain rim on a high trumpet foot.

This unusual shape is essentially a skyphos of East Greek inspiration (cf. Bucchero cups of Rasmussen 1979 types 1 and 3) on a high trumpet.foot. This combination does not seem to occur regularly in bucchero or impasto. Similar impasto goblets but with a less pronounced skyphos shape have been published from Poggio Buco (Matteucig 1951, 24, Nos.15-16, Pl.IV, 8-9) and are dated there to the mid 7th century. The bucchero cups of similar shape but a low foot date from the mid 7th to the early 6th centuries.

Kantharos

Type 1

This sherd is the lower attachment of a decorated handle. At the bottom are two sub-round impressions, above these are four horizontal parallel incised grooves and above these at least two oblique grooves. Date mid 7th to mid 6th century.

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