Su un dinos a figure nere da Falerii Veteres

A black figured dinos decorated with two animalistic friezes has be discovered between 1886 and 1889 in Falerii Veteres, La Penna necropolis, tomb 147 (LXXX) (LXXII Cozza). The vase does not appear in the monumental work of J. D. Beazley dedicated to the attic black figured vases, published in the 1956 (ABV), despite it counts the others black figured vases discovered in the same tomb. The attribution of the vase has created problems even to A.B. Brownlee, the greatest expert of attic black figured dinoi. The dinos, according to the shape and the style of the figures, can be dated at the end of the second quarter of the VI sec. B.C. and can be attributed to the Attic production. In particular, it can be compared to a dinos discovered in Lavinium. Moreover, this study has put in evidence contacts with the "Corinthian" Beotic pottery, Chalcidian pottery, the Campana Dinoi, East Greek Pottery (especially Clazomenian) and the Campana hydriae. The archaeometric analysis of the dinos have evidenced a high presence of copper with a concentration (~ 0,4 %) meaningfully greater regarding the others vases analysed (less then 400 ppm). The chromium and nickel concentrations, the most important element to determinate of the clay origin, has not supplied discriminating data; vice versa the analysis of the strontium and rubidium concentrations has placed in evidence for ours dinos values much similar to those of the dinos from Lavinium (sees Appendix).