- Laura Ambrosini –
by a decoration of Subgeometric type with repetitive elements. Some new discoveries
seem to prove that the Latin site of Crustumerium has been a center of production of this
pottery type.^15
A recent study of the production around Lake Bolsena and along the upper valley
of the Fiora has avoided the excessively broad defi nition of “Bolsena Group,” referring
to the “White on Red of middle-interior Etruria.”^16 The “Red on White” (Fig. 52.8)
shares with the “White on Red” the decorative syntax, the adoption of decoration such
as the target- and metope-patterns. Already in the second half of the eighth century bc,
the “Red on White” technique is used for the decoration of Subgeometric vases in such
internal sites as Bisenzio. In the Ager Faliscus the technique proceeds side by side with
that of “White on Red,” and often the two techniques are used with the specifi c desire
to play with two-tone (for example, even in Poggio Buco in the fi rst half of the seventh
century bc). The decorative syntax is simple and standardized, with linear and metopal
decorations. The class is present at Bisenzio until the Middle Orientalizing.
ETRUSCO-CORINTHIAN POTTERY^17For Etrusco-Corinthian pottery we have the monumental work of Szilágyi.^18 The Etrusco-
Corinthian pottery seems to develop directly from the Etrusco-Geometric tradition in
the late seventh century bc, encouraged by the emergence of new social classes. Etrusco-
Corinthian fi gured pottery from the beginning was characterized by specialization in
the decoration of certain shapes of vases. Around 630 bc a strong Hellenic acceleration
occurs in Caere and Vulci: Etrusco-Corinthian production starts. The Etrusco-Corinthian
pottery production is divided into three generations (fi rst generation 630–600 bc, second-
generation 600–580 bc, the third generation 580–550 bc). The input to production of
the Etrusco-Corinthian vases is given by Corinthian imports (for example, the famous
Chigi Olpe by the Macmillan Painter, a masterpiece of the Middle Proto-Corinthian
650–630 bc, from Veii, Chigi Tumulus).
Figure 52.8 Red on White olla, Vulci tomb 66, end of eighth–early seventh century bc. University of
Pennsylvania Museum MS 566, image no. 151416. Turfa 2005: no. 25.