Bucchero

Bucchero [ bukkero ] (Italian, originally from Portuguese Bucaro " fragrant clay " ) is a genus of black, shiny exterior clay pots that were BC produced from the mid-7th century to the beginning of the 4th century by the Etruscans. Initially ( until 600 BC) thin-walled, often decorated with incised decorative vessels, the so-called Bucchero sottile were created that should imitate in form and gloss metal vessels. In the 6th century BC, the coarser Bucchero followed pesante, which was often distorted with aufmodelliertem jewelry and stamp reliefs.

The Italian word " Bucchero " derives from the Portuguese word " Bucaro ," by which the conquerors of South America called the black - gray pottery found there. Towards the end of the 19th century the word was borrowed into Italian, where it became a synonym for " gray-black " was to refer to an imported from Portugal Dark dishes. From the modern archeology this term was adopted for the typical Etruscan ceramics.

The Etruscan Bucchero was found at the Gallo- Iberian coast, in Carthage, Magna Graecia, Greece, Lower Egypt, and on Sardinia, Sicily and Cyprus.