Called Pulia by Italians, Apulia is Italy’s most eastern region, a long peninsula, bordered by the Ionian and Adriatic seas. Always a strategic area in the Mediterranean it was colonized in its earliest days by the Greeks and then the Romans until the end of the Roman Empire 476 CE. Greek tribal people from the eastern Adriatic who arrived Italy in the late Bronze Age (11th-10th centuries BCE) produced hand formed and painted pottery with red, brown and black earth colors in a variety of geometric shapes from about 700 BCE to late 4th century BCE.
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This highly decorated ancient lekanis from Apulia in Magna Graecia, the Roman name for the South Italy coastal area, with close-fitting top held cosmetics. Considered fine ware, fathers filled them with jewelry for their daughters’ wedding gifts.
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