An Etruscan Amphora, 6th Century BC
It is on display with other repatriated art (almost exclusively Etruscan or Greek) in Aula Ottagona, a part of Baths of Diocletian.
Now used as a exhibition space for National Roman Museum in Rome, Italy.
Etruscan were member of an ancient people of Etruria, Italy, between the Tiber and Arno rivers west and south of the Apennines, whose urban civilization reached its height in the 6th century bce. Many features of Etruscan culture were adopted by the Romans, their successors to power in the peninsula.
An amphora, as used by ancient Greeks and Romans to hold water and wine. Generally depicted as brownish-red earthenware ornamented with black and a Greek meander pattern.
In the Bronze and Iron Ages amphorae spread around the ancient Mediterranean world, being used by the ancient Greeks and Romans as the principal means for transporting and storing grapes, olive oil, wine, oil, olives, grain, fish, and other commodities.
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