Etruscan bucchero ware box with ram and bull decoration, 4th C. BCE
"Bucchero wares are a shiny dark grey to black pottery produced by the Etruscans of central Italy from the 7th to 4th century BCE. Used for everyday purposes and as funerary and votive objects, bucchero incorporates many forms from simple jugs to highly decorative pieces of sculpture."
-taken from ancient.eu link below
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| A bucchero ware box with ram and bull decoration. Etruscan, 4th century BCE. (Museo Gregoriano Etrusco, Vatican Museums, Rome). |
Source:
https://www.ancient.eu/image/6280/bucchero-box-with-ram--bull-decoration/
Quote:
Nope. Those are lions. Dog in between. And a bull.
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