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ORIGIN OF 'TWO-STORIED' POTS
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shores of the Adriatic may well be suspected. The bronze halberd blade from the Sixth Shaft
Grave has indeed been already adduced as evidence of a commercial connexion with the Po
Valley at this epoch.
This type also appears on North Italian sites such as Bismantova in a subdued, bi-
conical shape. Farther removed again in date, but morphologically more primitive, the
VILLANOVA
VETULON 1 A
Fig. 250. Comparative Table of 'Two-Storied' Pots: a-/, Greece; g-k, Italy.
characteristic Villanova type of urn (Fig. 250, i, k) shows the building up process of these
vessels even better than the far earlier examples from the Aegean side. In the class with which we
are specially concerned, the upper story of the vessel is considerably higher and larger in
dimensions than the open bowl or pan on which it is superposed. Both the separate pans with
one or two handles and the jars, to which they provided a base and for which they often served
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shores of the Adriatic may well be suspected. The bronze halberd blade from the Sixth Shaft
Grave has indeed been already adduced as evidence of a commercial connexion with the Po
Valley at this epoch.
This type also appears on North Italian sites such as Bismantova in a subdued, bi-
conical shape. Farther removed again in date, but morphologically more primitive, the
VILLANOVA
VETULON 1 A
Fig. 250. Comparative Table of 'Two-Storied' Pots: a-/, Greece; g-k, Italy.
characteristic Villanova type of urn (Fig. 250, i, k) shows the building up process of these
vessels even better than the far earlier examples from the Aegean side. In the class with which we
are specially concerned, the upper story of the vessel is considerably higher and larger in
dimensions than the open bowl or pan on which it is superposed. Both the separate pans with
one or two handles and the jars, to which they provided a base and for which they often served