- Giuseppe Sassatelli and Elisabetta Govi –
Figure 15.21 River pebble with inscription “mi tular” from Spina (Soprintendenza per i Beni
Archeologici dell’Emilia Romagna).Figure 15.22 Attic vases from the funerary offerings at Spina (Soprintendenza per i
Beni Archeologici dell’Emilia Romagna).At Spina also were landed many amphorae for transport of Greek olive oil and wine. These
products were distributed by the Etruscans to the other populations of northern Italy, in
addition to the transalpine world, as evidenced by the Corinthian, Chiote, Samian, Attic,
Mendesian and perhaps also Thasian transport amphorae present at Spina, Marzabotto
and Forcello near Mantua. Also, bronze vessels of Etruscan production, linked to the
banquet, are present in northern Italy and beyond the Alps where they arrived in large
quantities along with the precious fi gured and black gloss Attic pottery, introducing to
the Celtic princes the Mediterranean tradition of the symposium and the consumption
of wine.