Iberian vase, V-I centuries B.C.

Iberian vase, V-I centuries B.C.
Pottery worked on a potter's wheel. Oxidizing firing, painted.
Very well preserved, although it has broken lines and a small fragment is missing on the rim. It has undergone a cleaning and consolidation process.
Measurements: 17.5 x 16 cm (mouth).
This vessel of spherical body presents a painted decoration of red-vinous color, with motifs of horizontal bands that separate friezes in which motifs of concentric semicircles and brushstrokes are developed. As for the origin of Iberian painted ceramics, the current state of research establishes a clear correlation between Phoenician imports from the 7th century BC and the first Iberian pottery on a potter's wheel that began imitating those prototypes, both in form and decoration, to later consolidate genuine typologies that also incorporated traditional forms of ancient Iron and Greek-inspired forms, when not directly imitations. Their repertoire incorporated and reinterpreted some of the most popular prototypes of Phoenician, Punic, Greek and finally Roman productions. The phenomenon of imitation occurs more frequently in the so-called prestige productions, with a special predilection for Attic ceramics with red figures and black glaze, Hellenistic and Roman black glaze ceramics, reflecting the ideological value given to them by the natives. We do not know if it comes from a necropolis and therefore would have a funerary function or comes from a village.