Terracotta Funnel Jar in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 2008

Terracotta Funnel-jar
Greek, South Italian, Apulian, Canosan, late 4th- early 3rd century BC

Accession # 06.1021.248 a-e

In its shape and decoration, this piece differs significantly from the vases of Greek derivation with which it was found. With its rotund, closed body and oblique neck, it is related to the indigenous Italic, Daunian form exhibited in the neighboring gallery of South Italian art. Instead of painted decoration, mold-made figures were fastened with pegs to the flange that serves as a ground-line. The surviving example belongs to a representation of the death of the Niobids.

Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.