Iberian vase, V-III centuries B.C.

Iberian vase, V-III centuries BC.
Pottery worked on a potter's wheel. Oxidizing firing, painted.
Very well preserved, although it has a fragment in the area of the glued rim, but it is complete. It has undergone a process of cleaning and consolidation.
Measurements: 21 (height) x 17 cm (diameter mouth).
This Iberian vessel presents a painted decoration of red-wine color, with motifs of horizontal bands. We found a vessel very similar to the one we are dealing with (Ricardo Marsal Monzón archaeological collection, p.127, gif.9, ref. T08-003) as part of a grave goods from the 4th century BC from the Torrecillas de Marmolejo (Jaén). In the museum of Jaén we can also find a similar urn with inventory number CE/DA04426.
As for the origin of painted Iberian ceramics, the current state of research establishes a clear correlation between Phoenician imports from the 7th century BC and the first Iberian pottery on the 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.