Large bronze bowl

Deep hemispherical basin with almost vertical, slighlty convex sides. (This basin might have been used as a cinerarium)

Period

Central Italy, archaic, 6th century B.C.

Dimension

H. 14.6 cm (5 ^3⁄4 in) Diam. 32.5 cm (12 ^51⁄64 in)

Art market, Switzerland, 1986
Private collection, Switzerland, from the above

Karl Schefold
Die Grabungen in Eretria im Herbst 1964 und 1965, AntK 9, 1966, 121-122, pl. 27,1-2

V. Bérard
Eretria III. L’Hérôon à la Porte de l’Ouest (1970) 13-14,6.2; 22-27, pl. 6,24

B. Blandin
Eretria XVII. Les pratiques fünéraires d’époque géometrique à Eretri (2007), Bd. 2, 44 (1), pl. 64

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