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ITALIC TOMB-GROUPS: NARCE 23M
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61. Three Amber Rings. PI. XXI. M.S.1081g
and h, D. of the larger with bevelled edges is 0.021 m.,
D. of the other two 0.011 m. and 0.013 m.
62. Amber Disks from Fibulae. PI. XXL M.S.
1082 and 1083. To one of these adhere two thin seg-
ments of bone, a larger segment of bone with circular
depression for inlay, and a bit of the bronze arch of the
fibula.
63. Bronze Bead. PI. XXII. M.S.1073, D. 0.01.
COMPARANDA
1. For shape compare a painted urn from a trench-
tomb at Narce, Barnabei’s Tomb XLIII, MonAnt. IV,
col. 263, Fig. 125 and col. 416, ornamented with concen-
tric circles. With the pattern in the lower zone on the
neck of our urn cf. that on a bowl from the same tomb,
id. PI. VII, 18. The fact that concentric circles and
this motive occur in both tombs implies that they may
well be contemporary. The latter pattern is apparently
derived from subgeometric Attic vases, cf. Hampe, PI. 32,
1 and 3 and HespSup. II, p. 29 and Fig. 16. Chevrons
connected by transverse lines without the enclosed cross
occur on No. 1 from Narce 19 M, PI. XVIII.
2. A painted vase-carrier of the same height with a
checker-board pattern on the bulb comes also from
Barnabei’s Tomb XLIII, MonAnt. IV, col. 262, Fig. 124.
3. Reclining animals with heads turned backward
are found in Mesopotamian, Hittite, Egyptian, Minoan,
Cypriote, Palestinian and Phoenician art, cf. Matz, pp.
59-61; V. Muller, AJA. 1940, p. 404, L. P. Cesnola,
Cyprus, Its Cities, Tombs and Temples, PL XXXI, 8 and
XXXIII, 24. SwedCypEx. I, PI. XLVII, 28. They
were a favorite decoration for sealstones and it may be
that it was by sealstones that the motive was transported
to Italy; a Phoenician seal with this device was found at
Tarquinii, NS. 1882, p. 197 (right). But the motive of
backward looking antelopes is more likely to have be-
come known to Italic potters through Greek geometric
vases, on which it is frequently painted; Pfuhl, Malund-
Zeich. PI. 1; Delos XV, Pis. XVIII and XIX, etc. Less
schematized than these examples are the antelopes on
the neck of an amphora from the Agora, HespSup. II, p.
180, Fig. 130, dated by Young to the end of the eighth
century. Still freer in style and accompanied by a less
discreet use of filling ornaments is the antelope on the
amphora, Delos XV, PI. XX, assigned by Dugas to his
Ad class in which Protoattic influence is first felt. The
does on our vase would seem to derive from a still later
prototype for their contours are more rounded. For a
nearly similar antelope from Canale, Locri, cf. Orsi,
MonAnt. XXXI, PI. XVI, 2, which Blakeway dated to
the eighth century, BSA. XXXIII, p. 177, but which,
if the pattern on the broken neck of this vase is to be
restored as a band of running ovals, could be dated well
into the seventh century, cf. No. 5 from Vulci 22, PI.
XLVIII. Certainly the motive of the reclining and back-
ward looking antelope remained in use in Italy until the
middle of the seventh century, cf. StEtr. IV, p. 25, Fig. 9.
4. In 1892 the Museo Archeologico, Florence, ac-
quired the contents of a trench-tomb excavated in the
Petrina cemetery, Narce. According to the labels in
the Museum,' there was a double burial in this tomb;
associated with one burial was a situla of the same type
as No. 4, and together with it was a painted urn com-
parable to No. 1 from this tomb, in the ornamentation
of which concentric circles play a conspicuous part.
Associated with the other burial was a plate ornamented
with birds in the style of No. 6 from Narce I. The
Florence tomb would seem to indicate that there was no
great lapse of time between our tombs Narce 23 M and
Narce I.
Snakes outlined with dots are frequent in both late
geometric and Protocorinthian vase-painting, HespSup.
II, p. 217; Johansen, p. 54. They are especially common
at Cumae and Gabrici has published, MonAnt. XXII,
col. 334, a useful collection of the various ways in which
the head of the snake was rendered. Of these only two,
Nos. 8 and 9, show the head in profile with one eye indi-
cated. The vase on which No. 9 occurs is not figured;
No. 8, id. PI. XXXVIII, 2, is taken from a conical
oinochoe and the head of the snake on this vase is largely
in silhouette with only a small circle reserved about the
dot for the eye. Still closer to the snake on our situla is
that on another conical oinochoe from Cumae, id. PI.
XXXVII, 1, which has been dated by Payne, PV., p.10,
to the second half of the eighth century. Here the head
is outlined and the reserved circle about the eye is conse-
quently larger. On this, as on the other oinochoe, the
snake has a row of white dots along its back. Young,
HespSup. II, p. 197, says that white for the adornment of
snakes was first used at the end of the eighth century,
both at Athens and Corinth.
5, 6, and 7. We have already seen that the pottery
from Barnabei’s Tomb XLIII is strikingly similar to that
from this tomb. Cf. further the concentric circles of
these three vases with those on MonAnt. IV, cols. 262
and 263, Figs. 124 and 125.
10. Crossbow fibulae of this type have been found in
great numbers at Terni. A few have been published:
NS. 1914, p. 39, Figs. 31 and 32; p. 43, Fig. 35; p. 44, Fig.
36. It is interesting to note that a catch-plate of an
incomplete fibula, p. 40, is ornamented with a backward
looking animal. Cf. also id. 1907, pp. 610, 638, 644,
Figs. 15, 34, and 38, and also the famous and elaborate
fibula from the Regolini-Galassi Tomb, Montelius, PI.
340, 5. With the bud motive on our fibula cf. Montelius
309, 12, a gold disk from Falerii, and id. PI. 288, 13
(= Monlned. X, PL Xb), the gold plaque from the War-
rior’s Tomb, Tarquinii, where it certainly occurs once in
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61. Three Amber Rings. PI. XXI. M.S.1081g
and h, D. of the larger with bevelled edges is 0.021 m.,
D. of the other two 0.011 m. and 0.013 m.
62. Amber Disks from Fibulae. PI. XXL M.S.
1082 and 1083. To one of these adhere two thin seg-
ments of bone, a larger segment of bone with circular
depression for inlay, and a bit of the bronze arch of the
fibula.
63. Bronze Bead. PI. XXII. M.S.1073, D. 0.01.
COMPARANDA
1. For shape compare a painted urn from a trench-
tomb at Narce, Barnabei’s Tomb XLIII, MonAnt. IV,
col. 263, Fig. 125 and col. 416, ornamented with concen-
tric circles. With the pattern in the lower zone on the
neck of our urn cf. that on a bowl from the same tomb,
id. PI. VII, 18. The fact that concentric circles and
this motive occur in both tombs implies that they may
well be contemporary. The latter pattern is apparently
derived from subgeometric Attic vases, cf. Hampe, PI. 32,
1 and 3 and HespSup. II, p. 29 and Fig. 16. Chevrons
connected by transverse lines without the enclosed cross
occur on No. 1 from Narce 19 M, PI. XVIII.
2. A painted vase-carrier of the same height with a
checker-board pattern on the bulb comes also from
Barnabei’s Tomb XLIII, MonAnt. IV, col. 262, Fig. 124.
3. Reclining animals with heads turned backward
are found in Mesopotamian, Hittite, Egyptian, Minoan,
Cypriote, Palestinian and Phoenician art, cf. Matz, pp.
59-61; V. Muller, AJA. 1940, p. 404, L. P. Cesnola,
Cyprus, Its Cities, Tombs and Temples, PL XXXI, 8 and
XXXIII, 24. SwedCypEx. I, PI. XLVII, 28. They
were a favorite decoration for sealstones and it may be
that it was by sealstones that the motive was transported
to Italy; a Phoenician seal with this device was found at
Tarquinii, NS. 1882, p. 197 (right). But the motive of
backward looking antelopes is more likely to have be-
come known to Italic potters through Greek geometric
vases, on which it is frequently painted; Pfuhl, Malund-
Zeich. PI. 1; Delos XV, Pis. XVIII and XIX, etc. Less
schematized than these examples are the antelopes on
the neck of an amphora from the Agora, HespSup. II, p.
180, Fig. 130, dated by Young to the end of the eighth
century. Still freer in style and accompanied by a less
discreet use of filling ornaments is the antelope on the
amphora, Delos XV, PI. XX, assigned by Dugas to his
Ad class in which Protoattic influence is first felt. The
does on our vase would seem to derive from a still later
prototype for their contours are more rounded. For a
nearly similar antelope from Canale, Locri, cf. Orsi,
MonAnt. XXXI, PI. XVI, 2, which Blakeway dated to
the eighth century, BSA. XXXIII, p. 177, but which,
if the pattern on the broken neck of this vase is to be
restored as a band of running ovals, could be dated well
into the seventh century, cf. No. 5 from Vulci 22, PI.
XLVIII. Certainly the motive of the reclining and back-
ward looking antelope remained in use in Italy until the
middle of the seventh century, cf. StEtr. IV, p. 25, Fig. 9.
4. In 1892 the Museo Archeologico, Florence, ac-
quired the contents of a trench-tomb excavated in the
Petrina cemetery, Narce. According to the labels in
the Museum,' there was a double burial in this tomb;
associated with one burial was a situla of the same type
as No. 4, and together with it was a painted urn com-
parable to No. 1 from this tomb, in the ornamentation
of which concentric circles play a conspicuous part.
Associated with the other burial was a plate ornamented
with birds in the style of No. 6 from Narce I. The
Florence tomb would seem to indicate that there was no
great lapse of time between our tombs Narce 23 M and
Narce I.
Snakes outlined with dots are frequent in both late
geometric and Protocorinthian vase-painting, HespSup.
II, p. 217; Johansen, p. 54. They are especially common
at Cumae and Gabrici has published, MonAnt. XXII,
col. 334, a useful collection of the various ways in which
the head of the snake was rendered. Of these only two,
Nos. 8 and 9, show the head in profile with one eye indi-
cated. The vase on which No. 9 occurs is not figured;
No. 8, id. PI. XXXVIII, 2, is taken from a conical
oinochoe and the head of the snake on this vase is largely
in silhouette with only a small circle reserved about the
dot for the eye. Still closer to the snake on our situla is
that on another conical oinochoe from Cumae, id. PI.
XXXVII, 1, which has been dated by Payne, PV., p.10,
to the second half of the eighth century. Here the head
is outlined and the reserved circle about the eye is conse-
quently larger. On this, as on the other oinochoe, the
snake has a row of white dots along its back. Young,
HespSup. II, p. 197, says that white for the adornment of
snakes was first used at the end of the eighth century,
both at Athens and Corinth.
5, 6, and 7. We have already seen that the pottery
from Barnabei’s Tomb XLIII is strikingly similar to that
from this tomb. Cf. further the concentric circles of
these three vases with those on MonAnt. IV, cols. 262
and 263, Figs. 124 and 125.
10. Crossbow fibulae of this type have been found in
great numbers at Terni. A few have been published:
NS. 1914, p. 39, Figs. 31 and 32; p. 43, Fig. 35; p. 44, Fig.
36. It is interesting to note that a catch-plate of an
incomplete fibula, p. 40, is ornamented with a backward
looking animal. Cf. also id. 1907, pp. 610, 638, 644,
Figs. 15, 34, and 38, and also the famous and elaborate
fibula from the Regolini-Galassi Tomb, Montelius, PI.
340, 5. With the bud motive on our fibula cf. Montelius
309, 12, a gold disk from Falerii, and id. PI. 288, 13
(= Monlned. X, PL Xb), the gold plaque from the War-
rior’s Tomb, Tarquinii, where it certainly occurs once in