Artifact – Antiquity – Modeled Ceramic Funeral Urn With Documentation – Archaeology

Period: 1st century BC Origin: Necropolis of La Catalane, Les Baux-de-Provence (Southern Gaul) Provenance: Collection of Hérain, formerly acquired before 1973 Complete modeled indigenous ceramic urn from the funerary furniture of the protohistoric necropolis of La Catalane. This vase, dating from the end of the Iron Age, illustrates the local pottery know-how, marked by a sober and symbolic decoration, and is part of the funerary traditions of the Gallo-Greek populations of Provence. Description: • Material: reddish paste. • Shape: globular urn with a wide opening, slightly exposed neck. • Decoration: oblique fusiform impressions arranged on the shoulder. • Technique: shaping by modeling; roughly smoothed internal surface; brown external surface, roughly polished at the neck, combed and smoothed on the body. Use: Intended to contain cremated remains or offerings, this funerary urn reflects the continuity of ritual gestures in the passage to the afterlife. Its printed decoration, rare in the corpus, testifies to the local expression and the importance given to the symbolism of funerary deposits. Condition: complete, stable surface with wear consistent with its age. Reference: published in the Revue archéologique de Narbonnaise, volume 6 (1973), inventory of the necropolis of La Catalane, Baux-de-Provence, cat. 82. (Cat 31 handwritten) Dimensions: • Height: 13.0 cm • Diameter at the opening: 14.0 cm • Maximum diameter: 16.4 cm • Diameter of the base: 10.0 cm ALL DELIVERIES ARE MADE BY DHL EXPRESS ONLY.