# Since I've Got You All O... <cite>by @diffendale on Twitter</cite> ## Metadata - Author: [[@diffendale on Twitter]] - Full Title: Since I've Got You All O... - Link: https://twitter.com/diffendale/status/1439204731403055114 ## Highlights ### ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/diffendale/status/1439204731403055114)) > Since I've got you all on the Etruscan sculpture line... I have some bad news about Boar Vessel 600-500 BC Etruscan Ceramic, if you haven't already heard. (Here, a glamor shot from the innocent days of 2014:)  ### ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/diffendale/status/1439204798641868801)) > It's always been an odd duck, so to speak—an unicum, that is, an artifact without any other known exact parallels. This makes it difficult to situate culturally, and to understand its ancient context. ### ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/diffendale/status/1439204845781667840)) > Archaeology is very much a study of patterns in material culture, and it's hard to find patterns in a dataset of one. We can find parallels for certain elements of the vessel, e.g. the modeled head, and the surface treatment and decoration—but not for all these elements together. ### ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/diffendale/status/1439204946029780996)) > The appearance of the ceramic—color, burnished surface, the incised roulette decoration—finds parallels in Villanovan-style impasto pottery ('Villanovan' is an arbitrary name assigned by archaeologists to a type of material culture used in the area where we later find Etruscans). ### ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/diffendale/status/1439205767937241093)) > Here, on the left, a Villanovan askos of the 9th c. BCE from Tarquinia, with incised rouletting and an animal head (which looks nothing like the style of the boar's head, however). On the right, another askos, 8th c., from Cerveteri, now in @VillaGiuliaRm.   ### ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/diffendale/status/1439206590440149002)) > And here on the left is an example of a much later (early 3rd c. BCE) Etruscan askos, with its pig head closer in style to what we see on the boar vessel. On the right, a boar askos (ca. 350-325 BCE) made in Boeotia in Greece, found in a tomb at Locri in southern Italy.   ### ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/diffendale/status/1439206882074365952)) > There are many more parallels I could cite from the earlier and later periods, along these lines, but this is twitter after all... ### ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/diffendale/status/1439206957261393925)) > So, ceramic type & surface decoration sit most comfortably 9th-7th c. BCE, though could go later, and the modeling of the head is most comfortably 4th-2nd c. BCE, though could be a bit earlier. This is probably why BV was originally listed as "600-500 BC" by the Cleveland museum.