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© Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya - Barcelona
Omeka ID 2337
Olèrdola
Iberians

black varnish jar from Capua

MAC OLE-01054

Object type
jug
Production date
-300 / -275
Fabric
black varnish Capua
Museum
Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya - Barcelona
Culture
Iberians
Discovery location
Olèrdola. Muralla romana - cinglera est (sector 02)
Materials
pottery
Township
Olèrdola (Europa, Espanya, Catalunya, Barcelona, Alt Penedès)
Technique
wheel-thrown
Where is it?
Reserves
Dimensions
98 x 92 x 92 mm
Description
Complete jar. The clay is ochre-coloured with a shiny, black metallic glaze that is slightly lost. Globular body and decorated with vertical striations. Decoration in white paint in the form of ivy on the neck. It is a luxury product (black ceramic varnish from Capua) that rarely reached the Iberian Peninsula. It was located inside the Iberian tower flanking the entrance (Tower 2) during the 2018 excavation, in the level of a fire at the end of the third century BC. It was on the first floor, a space that had been converted into a dwelling.

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