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'''Photos''' of the repaired situla on http://risdmuseum.org/art_design/objects/95_pail_situla.
'''Photos''' of the repaired situla on http://risdmuseum.org/art_design/objects/95_pail_situla.
'''Size''': height 26.6 cm, diam. top 21 cm, widest section 23.6 cm, bottom 13 cm
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Revision as of 15:02, 18 October 2013

Object
Proper name: Situla in Providence
Classification: situla
Material: bronze
Size: height 26.6 cm, diam. 23.6 cm
Condition: restored
Archaeological culture: Hallstatt
Date: 550-500 BC
Date derived from: typology

Site: unknown
Coordinates (approx.): none
Find date: unknown
Current location: Rhode Island School of Design Museum
Inventory Nr.: Mary B. Jackson Fund 32.245

Inscription: HU-7 (?ẹḳiesiuṭikutanin/metḷainile)

Sources: Frey 1962: 1-57

Images

Commentary

Find circumstances: The situla was retrieved from the Italian art trade. The indication of source - the Etruscan necropolis at the Certosa di Bologna - is doubtful (Frey 1962: 1); the fact that a related object (the Situla Certosa, Frey 1962: 59 Nr 4) was found there can either support or challenge the claim.

Provenance: Lucke (= Frey 1962) places the situla in the context of others from the area of the Eastern Alps and Northern Italy and assumes that it was manufactured by "Illyrians" in the valley of the Adige rather than in the South (p. 51), but Frey argues for locating a non-Etruscan workshop near Bologna (p. 57). The website of the RISD Museum, however, calls the object Etruscan.

Dating: Lucke (= Frey 1962) dates the situla to the 3rd quarter of the 6th century BC (p. 46, but see also the comments of Frey p. 55f). On the website of the RISD Museum the object's dating is given as 530-525 BCE.

Photos of the repaired situla on http://risdmuseum.org/art_design/objects/95_pail_situla.

Size: height 26.6 cm, diam. top 21 cm, widest section 23.6 cm, bottom 13 cm

Bibliography

Frey 1962 Otto-Herman Frey (Ed.); Wolfgang Lucke, Die Situla in Providence (Rhode Island). Ein Beitrag zur Situlenkunst des Osthallstattkreises [= Römisch-Germanische Forschungen 26], Berlin: 1962.
Marchesini & Zaghetto 2019 Simona Marchesini, Luca Zaghetto, "The Situla in Providence. A comprehensive analysis of inscription and decorative program", in: Simon Hye, Ulrike Töchterle (eds), UPIKU:TAUKE. Festschrift für Gerhard Tomedi zum 65. Geburtstag [= Universitätsforschungen zur prähistorischen Archäologie 339], Bonn: 2019, 329–341.