Apulia

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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  • Ancient Daunian Earthenware Cup, Magna Graecia, Italy (1789LME) $595

    $595.00
    H: 3”  W: 4.75”  D: 4” | FREE SHIPPING IN CONTINENTAL U.S.!

    This Daunian style earthenware cup was produced in the ancient northern Italian region Apulia, then known as Magna Graecia, from the 6th or 5th centuries B.C.E.. It was covered with beige slip and painted with red, brown and black earth colors in a variety of geometric patterns. Its curved rim and high handle was ideal for pouring liquids like water and wine.  The handle may have been repaired as there is an uneven slip underneath it or may have been attached it was painted but it is otherwise in very good condition.

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  • Ancient Lekanis Dish, Magna Graecia (3247BHK) $575

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    This ancient pottery lekanis is from Apulia in Magna Graecia, the Roman name for the South Italy coastal area colonized by the Greeks in the 6th century B.C.E. Greek settlers arrived with their Hellenic culture intact and had much influence on Italian civilization. A lekanis was a highly decorated low shallow bowl with close-fitting top…

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