- Jean Gran-Aymerich with Jean MacIntosh Turfa –
of imports in the region south of the Alps, or may be local replications. The Etruscan
stamnos followed the same path as the situla, and they are occasionally found together
in the necropoleis of Bourges or La Picardie (Gurgy, Auxerre).^51 The site of Ullastret
(Girona) has revealed a stamnos handle attachment (Fig. 17.21).^52
Amongst the vessels destined to be placed upon tripods are large basins and cauldrons.
Concerning these, there is a complete ensemble from La Garenne (Saint-Colombe), the
protome from Angers, the cauldron from Hassle (Sweden), likewise the heads of an
example from Olympia, which would appear to be Etruscan.^53
The bronze basins of Etruscan origin and their copies are abundantly represented to
the north of the Italian Peninsula and in the Celtic hinterland.^54 The series of bossed-
rim basins appear in signifi cant numbers in southern France, and the Grand Ribaud F
shipwreck has revealed a stack of smaller pieces within a cargo that contained several
wine amphorae (Figs 17.9 and 17.10). On the coast of Agde was discovered, not far from
the tripod, a basin-cauldron with plain rim identical to the deep-bodied basins and of
Etruscan and Etrusco-Campanian great dimensions.^55 Basins with attached solid handles
belong to those categories of grave goods distinctive of high-status tombs, such as the
one in Vix dating to the second half of the sixth century. The most recent examples,
fi fth–fourth centuries, have elaborately decorated handles and appear at Verna (Saint
Romain de Jalionas, Isère), at Saint-Gemmes-sur-Loire (Angers) and up to the Atlantic
coast in Gironde, at Barzan, in the deepest levels of the Fâ sanctuary (Fig. 19.13).^56
Bourges is known for its remarkable concentration of Etrusco-Italic bronzes (nearly
twenty) coming from tombs and from peripheral deposits, while the domestic area later
revealed an Etruscan basin handle of the “omega” type.^57 Concerning the littoral of the
Iberian Peninsula, several basins originally identifi ed as Etruscan have been reclassifi ed,
but we might still look to the one example from Peña Negra (Alacant-Alicante) as
Etruscan.^58
Etruscan bronze cups of long-range distribution are known from the seventh century
in the ribbed phialai – Rippenschalen – known from Frankfurt, Poiseul-la-Ville, from the
environs of Lyons, and from Appenwihr Colmar, (where the phiale accompanied a bronze
pyxis).^59 These two objects, the phiale and pyxis, would most likely have been products of
Vetulonia, but the possibility of an artisan from this region working in northern Italy or
on the northern slope of the Alps should also be considered.^60 Etruscan paterae (shallow
bowls) of “Cook” type have been identifi ed on the north-east of the Iberian Peninsula, in
the tomb of Ferrers at Calaceite and in the region of Empúries.^61
Other metallic objects appropriate to the banquetEtruscan tripods are known in the European context from early examples of the type ad
occhiello nelle zampe – a characteristic product of Vetulonia in the mid-seventh century – an
example of which comes from Novo Mesto in Slovenia.^62 Amongst the rod-tripods and
lion-footed tripods is one that held the cauldron of La Garenne at Sainte-Colombe, as well
as the tripod from Auxerre which was (defi nitively?) removed from the list of local fi nds.^63
The example from the Grafenbüll tomb may be Etruscan.^64 In the Mediterranean, other
than those from Aléria (tall candelabras on iron tripods), we know the complete example
from Agde, an inscribed example from Empúries, and the appliqué from La Algaida
from near the mouth of the Guadalquivir, although the interpretation of this last one as
a tripod is controversial.^65