Dohan, Edith Hall: Italic tomb-groups in the University Museum (Philadelphia, Pa., 1942)

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ITALIC TOMB-GROUPS: NARCE 19M

51. Glass Bead. Pl. XX. M.S.806a, D. 0.022 m.
Irregularly spherical, of yellow translucent glass.
52. Glass Bead. PL XX. M.S.806, D. 0.018 m.
Spherical with one side flattened. Of bluish black glass
with three tangent circles of green glass pressed into the
surface.
53. Perforated Fragment of Black and Yellow
Glass. PL XX. M.S.806b. The head of a duck is
probably represented.
54. In the record photograph of this tomb appears an
iron sword which cannot now be identified among the
fragments of iron brought by Frothingham.
COMPARANDA
1. The chevrons connected by transverse lines are
similar to those on No. 1 from Narce 23 M, PL XXL
3. Cf. Montelius, PL 318, 21 from Barnabei’s Tomb
XXXII, Narce, which furnishes a parallel for Nos. 7 and
8; No. 3 from Vulci 51, PL XLIVand No. 7 from Vulci 66,
PL XLV, where on similar evidence black color is as-
sumed for some of the ornament. The metopic arrange-
ment of the ornament is also similar on the two vases.
Black color and metopic ornament occur again on the
well known lydion from Visentium, MonAnt. XXI, col.
439, Fig. 29, and colored plate at end of volume.
4. For shape cf. Johansen, PL III, 1; CVA. Scheurleer
1, IVb, Pl. I, 1. Blakeway dated this vase to ca. 850
B.C., JRS. 1935, p. 135. But need it be so early? Cf.
CVA. Copenhagen, Pl. 67, 5; a Protoattic ‘stamnos’, Hesp-
Sup. II, pp. 129 and 130, Figs. 92 and 93, which Young
thinks should have been restored with a lower foot;
similarly shaped geometric and Protoattic vessels with
high feet, AA. 1935, pp. 412 and 413, Figs. 1-4. The
presence of two jars of nearly similar shape, Nos. 32 and
33 in Narce 64 B, Pl. XXXIX suggests a later date. The
two conspicuous patterns on our jar, the interlocking
double curves and the rows of triangles pointing alter-
nately up and down are frequent on late geometric vases
from the Greek Islands, Delos, XV, Pis. XVIII, XIX,
XX, XXI and XXXV; from Crete, An. X-XII, p. 565,
Fig. 621, p. 569, Figs. 622 and 623, p. 591, Fig. 640, p.
605, Fig. 644 and Argos, ’Ecp. ’Ap%- 1938, p. 389, Fig. 14.
These patterns, however, remained in use in a later
period, Delos, XVII, Pis. IX, X and XI; HespSup. II, p.
149, Fig. 104, G31 and p. 170, Fig. 120. In Italy they
lasted until late in the seventh century, cf. an amphora
from a chamber-tomb in Veii, NS. 1928, p. 104, Fig. 17,
found with bucchero ware. Cf. also Pottier, p. 37 and
PL 30, D. 57, and No. 32 from Narce 64 B, Pl. XXXIX.
5. Cf. MonAnt. IV, col. 199, Fig. 85, and col. 404,
No. 11 from Barnabei’s Tomb XXXIV, Narce, which
repeats several of the features of our vase: the ribbed
arch on which the horseman stands; the use of the dot

and circle ornament; and the pendant chains of clay.
The two vases must be approximately contemporary.
With the base, cf. that of No. 5 from Vulci 42 F, Pl.
XLIX.
6. Cf. No. 1 from Narce 43, Pl. I. The fact that the
horseman stands on the shoulder of the vase suggests a
comparison with the bronze figures which stand on the
rims of tripods from the Barberini and Bernardini Tombs,
MAAR. V, PL 25 and III, PL 49. For the origin of the
motive of men between horses, see Hanfmann, p. 85.
7 and 8. Cf. No. 14 from Vulci 42 F, Pl. XLIX-
Montelius, Pl. 318, 20 from Barnabei’s Tomb XXXII,
a trench-tomb, Narce; and MonAnt. IV, col. 495, No. 31,
from Barnabei’s Tomb XLIX, also a trench-tomb; and
CVA. Copenhagen, Pl. 194, 10. If Luschey, p. 154, is
right, as I think he is, in assuming that the phiale did not
reach Italy before the seventh century, then this shape,
a variation of the phiale, must be placed at a date later
than the opening years of this century.
9. Cf. De Ridder, Pl. 92, No. 2569 from Narce, on
which stands a bronze bowl ornamented in the same
style as No. 6 from Narce 43, Pl. /; MonAnt. IV, col.
219c and d, from Montarano (= Montelius, Pl. 307, 19
and 22); id. XV, cols. 226-231, Figs. 92-95 from Latium;
id. XVI, col. 416, Fig. 33 and col. 332, No. 15 from
Tomb LIV, the Ager Capenatus. A tripod from the
Regolini-Galassi Tomb, though not entirely similar, does
not differ widely in structure, Montelius, Pl. 335, 8.
12. Cf. MonAnt. IV, Pl. XI, 1 from Barnabei’s Tomb
XXXVII Narce; Montelius, PL 277, 8, and id. Pl.
278, 7 from Tarquinian well-tombs; NS. 1903, p. 301,
Fig. 7 from Caracupa; Montelius, Pl. 355,16, from Rome;
NS. 1907, p. 67, Fig. 19 from Tarquinii; id. 1908, p. 213,
Fig. 16a from Populonia.
14. Cf. MonAnt. XV, PL XI, 6 and 20, col. 146 from
Rome, which are also fractured at the top; Monlned. X,
Pl. X, 1 (= Montelius, Pl. 287, 6) from the Warrior’s
Tomb, Tarquinii; NS. 1928, Pl. X and p. 456 from Tomb
X, Visentium, found with four vases, id. PL IX, which
are surely of late subgeometric date, as may be seen by
the patterns of connected ovals on the vase at the upper
right, although Blakeway, BSA. XXXIII, p. 195 appar-
ently thought them earlier, see below, p. 92; a bronze
pendant from the Isola del Quarnero, NS. 1924, p. 147,
Fig. 27, seems to be of the same type. For a Hallstatt
example, see Treasures of Carniola, PL XVI, 88, where
a single pendant of this type is suspended from a fibula.
15. Cf. No. 22 from Narce 23 M, Pl. XXII; MonAnt.
IV, Pl. IX, 55 and col. 419, No. 13a from Barnabei’s
Tomb XXV, Narce; id. XVI, p. 352, No. 7 and p. 391,
Fig. 13 from Tomb LXXXI, the Ager Capenatus; NS.
1911, p. 435, Fig. 3a from Nazzano; Montelius, Pl. 250,
5 from Perugia; id. Pl. 71, 9 and Pl. 82, 10 from Bologna;