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

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ITALIC TOMB-GROUPS: VULCI 22

16. Tripod Bowl. Pl. XLVII. M.S.607, H. 0.083
m., D. 0.228 m. Mended. Traces of iron on the
grooved rim. Professor Mengarelli tells me that he has
observed that tripod bowls of this type are found in
women’s tombs only and that he assumes that they were
used for grinding.
17. Italic Variant of a Middle Corinthian
Skyphos. PL XLVII. M.S.620, H. 0.066 m., D. 0.119
m. Intact. Fine buff fabric throughout. Wheel-
made. The interior of the vase is covered with a muddy
brownish paint over which, on the inner face of the rim,
are bands of purplish red and white. On the outer face
of the rim is a row of brown rectangles set at intervals
between fine horizontal lines and below them a row of
brown dots. In the handle zone on obverse and reverse
a pair of water birds. The upper part of their wings is
purplish red; the lower part is indicated by a pair of
incised horizontal lines and by incised loops, filled al-
ternately with red and brown color, the latter embellished
by white dots. In the field are a few small blobs with
incised crosses. The style is careless. The lower part
of the vase is solidly dark.
Objects Other than Pottery
18. Twenty Biconical Coils. PI. XLVIII. M.S.
622 and 623. There are two sizes; the intact specimens
of the larger coils measure 0.129 m. in length, those of
the smaller size 0.072 m.
19. Bronze Fibula. PI. XLVIII. M.S.633g, L.
0.049 m. Spring and pin missing. Elongated catch.
Bow drawn out at the sides.

Fig. 56 Fig. 57
20. Bronze Fibula. PL XLVIII and Fig. 56. M.S.
633b, L. 0.033 m. Pin and catch broken. Groups of
parallel incised transverse lines on the bow.
21. Bronze Fibula. Pl. XLVIII and Fig. 57. M.S.
633f, L. 0.044 m. Pin missing. Bow drawn out at
center.
22. Bronze Fibula. Pl. XLVIII and Fig. 58. M.S.
633d, L. 0.029 m. Spring, pin, and catch missing.
Bow widened at center and ornamented with longitudinal
bands filled with parallel diagonals. Transverse lines
adjacent to spring and catch.
23. Bronze Fibula. Pl. XLVIII and Fig. 59. M.S.
633e, L. 0.042 m. Spring and pin missing. Bow orna-

mented with raised bands, longitudinal at the center,
transverse toward the ends, and with rows of countersunk
dots.



24. Bronze Fibula. PL XLVIII and Fig. 60. M.S.
633a, L. 0.033 m. Spring, pin, and catch missing.
Bow ornamented with longitudinal and transverse lines
and rows of fine dots.



25. Bronze Fibula. Pl. XLVIII and Fig. 61. M.S.
633c, L. 0.025 m. Spring, pin and catch missing. Four
countersunk dotted circles between intersecting diag-
onals, flanked by parallel transverse lines and rows of
dots.
26. Bronze Fibula.
Pl. XLVIII and Fig. 62.
M.S.635e, L. 0.031 m.
Catch and pin broken. A
longitudinal midrib is or-
namented with a row of
dots; transverse lines at
ends.
27. Bronze Fibula. Pl. XLVIII. M.S.635b, L.
0.063 m. The catch, now broken, must have been long
to match the length of the pin. The bow is bent and
split, but similar to that of the foregoing except that the
notched midrib is transverse.
28. Bronze Fibula Strung with Amber. Pl.
XLVIII. M.S.633h, L. 0.03 m. Bow rectangular in
section on which are strung five sections of amber.
29. Bronze Bracelet. Pl. XLVIII. M.S.579, D.
0.071 m. Intact. Catalogued with the contents of
Vulci 66, but clearly recognizable in the record photo-
graph of this tomb. Three transverse striations adjacent
to either end.
30. Bronze Coil. Pl. XLVIII. M.S.624, D. 0.021
m., L. 0.22 m.