Object type
kalathos
Fabric
common Iberian painted pottery
Culture/period
Protohistory and Iberian world
Materials
pottery
Technique
wheel-thrown
Mint
Production date
-250 / -100
Current location
Exposició permanent
Archaeological site
Pla de les Tenalles
Township
Granyanella (Europa, Espanya, Catalunya, Lleida, La Segarra)
Dimensions
261 x 260 x 274 mm
Description
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Kalathos with a concave base, cylindrical body with a horizontal flat lip and slight tab towards the interior. It has two horizontal handles, slightly curved, closely attached to the body. It displays red painted decoration, based on geometric, zoomorphic and plant motifs, which extends across the outer surface of the piece.
Specifically, three thick horizontal stripes create individual panels filled with a very dense succession of different motifs, predominantly of plants above the strictly geometric. Thus, all three panels developed a correlation without apparent order, ivy leaves, triangles, waves, inverted "esses" and others, highlighting the fact that the lack of correspondence between the arrangement of different motifs a panel about the other. Of all the decorative scheme, it is worth noting the presence, in the top panel and next to one of the two handles, of a zoomorphic figure. It is highly stylized drawing of a bird with open wings. Finally, the outer lip is a succession of groups of sinuous bands. This kalathos comes from the Iberian village of Pla de les Tenalles de la Mora, particularly in the sector outside the walls of House 3 in a context that probably belongs to the time of destruction of the settlement, dated to around 200 BC.
© Museu comarcal de l'Urgell-Tàrrega
Omeka ID
1223