Claudio BizzarriFigure 36.3a—e Vases found in excavation of the Scala Mobile cuniculus: a) olla: common ware ovoid
large container, this kind of vase is documented in Etruria since the mid-sixth century BC while in
Orvieto, in funerary contexts, it appears from the second half of the century; b) Piattello: grey bucchero
stemmed-foot small plate, this shape in Orvieto appears around the end of the sixth century BC and
follows into the first half of the following century; c) Lekythos: globular vase used for scented oil, the
body is decorated with painted lines; the production of this vase seems to be peculiar to Orvieto in the
Archaic period; d) Cup: grey bucchero cup with a ring base, a very common shape in Southern Etruria, is
attested in Orvieto since the third quarter of the sixth century BC; e) Piattello spirale a stralucido'. common
ware plate decorated with a “burnished spiral line” on the interior surface called “spirale a stralucido ”
peculiar of the productions of Orvieto from the end of the sixth century BC to the third century BC.
Figure 36.4 Etruscan private houses with cisterns: the “Tuscan atrium.”
(Drawing by Simone Moretti Giani).a bcde