Iberian urn, 1st century B.C.-A.D. 1st century.

Iberian urn, 1st century B.C.-A.D. 1st century.
Pottery worked on a potter's wheel. Oxidizing firing, painted.
In very good state of preservation, although it has lost part of the paint in some areas. It has undergone a process of cleaning and consolidation.
Measurements: 27,5 x 13,20 cm.
Closed vessel with a rounded lip and rounded rim. It presents a painted decoration of red-violet and orange color, with two horizontal bands, one in the neck and another one in the belly that separate a frieze in which we find geometric motives based on concentric semicircular lines, alternating with other vertical and horizontal ones with undulations. We do not know the archaeological context or the place of appearance of our vessel, but in the Archaeological Museum of Linares, from the Necropolis of the North Gate of Castulo, there are several urns very similar in shape, size and decoration. In the cataloguing card they are described as "urns of Iberian tradition in terms of shape and decoration. In these moments, a different trousseau to the typical one of the full Iberian where the warrior elements predominated.