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© Museu Comarcal de l'Urgell-Tàrrega
Omeka ID 1223
Pla de les Tenalles
Protohistory and Iberian world

bird kalathos

MCUT 3073

Object type
kalathos
Production date
-250 / -100
Fabric
common Iberian painted pottery
Museum
Museu Comarcal de l'Urgell-Tàrrega
Culture
Protohistory and Iberian world
Discovery location
Pla de les Tenalles
Materials
pottery
Township
Granyanella (Europa, Espanya, Catalunya, Lleida, La Segarra)
Technique
wheel-thrown
Where is it?
Exposició permanent
Dimensions
261 x 260 x 274 mm
Description
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.

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