Terracotta brazier

Unknown

ca. 600–530 BCE · Terracotta · Greek and Roman Art

One of the braziers (96.18.96, ca. 600 B.C.) is decorated with two different cylinder stamps, one showing a standard animal procession, the other depicting a boar hunt that is known only from five examples excavated at San Giovenale. The other brazier (19.192.53, ca. 550 B.C.) is stamped with a scene of a man and two dogs chasing a hare into a net held by a second man. Such friezes were popular on Protocorinthian vases and Etruscan Pontic ware. The fragment (23.160.94, ca. 540–530 B.C.) depicts pairs of lions attacking a bull and a doe, a subject that was adapted by the Etruscans from Near Eastern and Greek prototypes and that also appears on the Monteleone Chariot (03.23.1), which is on view in this gallery.

Artist

Unknown

Date

ca. 600–530 BCE

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Etruscan

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Purchase by subscription, 1896