In the Shefton Collection in the Newcastle University there are two Etruscan bronze funnels (infundibula), which were once part of a wine drinking set. There are more than 100 examples of such funnels, used to pour wine, from a krater into an oinochoe or from an oinochoe into a kantharos. They have been found mostly in continental Italy and in Sicily, but examples reached Spain, Cyrene, Greece (Olympia, Argos, Ialysos on Rhodes, Samos), modern-day Turkey (Didyma) and the Milesian colony of Panticapaion on the northern shore of Black Sea. The workshop was located in southern Etruria. Some local imitations of Etruscan bronze funnels are known in Greece stylistically different from the Etruscan ones, so that one can presume the existence of Greek infundibula, imitating the Etruscan prototypes. This detail is important to stress, because the Etruscans are usually thought to be the recipients of Greek ideas imitating them in their own „barbarian“ way. One can conclude that sometimes the cultivated Greeks received and imitated objects by the „barbarian“ Etruscans.

Brian Benjamin Shefton and the Etruscan bronze funnels / Naso, Alessandro. - (2015), pp. 155-172.

Brian Benjamin Shefton and the Etruscan bronze funnels

NASO, Alessandro
2015

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In the Shefton Collection in the Newcastle University there are two Etruscan bronze funnels (infundibula), which were once part of a wine drinking set. There are more than 100 examples of such funnels, used to pour wine, from a krater into an oinochoe or from an oinochoe into a kantharos. They have been found mostly in continental Italy and in Sicily, but examples reached Spain, Cyrene, Greece (Olympia, Argos, Ialysos on Rhodes, Samos), modern-day Turkey (Didyma) and the Milesian colony of Panticapaion on the northern shore of Black Sea. The workshop was located in southern Etruria. Some local imitations of Etruscan bronze funnels are known in Greece stylistically different from the Etruscan ones, so that one can presume the existence of Greek infundibula, imitating the Etruscan prototypes. This detail is important to stress, because the Etruscans are usually thought to be the recipients of Greek ideas imitating them in their own „barbarian“ way. One can conclude that sometimes the cultivated Greeks received and imitated objects by the „barbarian“ Etruscans.
2015
9781785700064
Brian Benjamin Shefton and the Etruscan bronze funnels / Naso, Alessandro. - (2015), pp. 155-172.
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