

That is, inscriptions (with any narrative quality), written sources (there are none for the seventh century BC), or even other vases of this nature. While we have a plethora of written sources for the relationship between Greeks and Etruscans in the early years of Aegean settlement in the waters around Italy, we have few first-hand accounts.

But for others it may seem very odd.īut there is a good reason why I have devoted so much time to thinking about this vessel. For anyone interested in the globalizing world of the central Mediterranean in the period before Roman domination, this may not be a shock. I have spent fewer hours thinking about things that I lust after than about the so-called Aristonothos Krater.

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