Chigi Vase. The Chigi vase is a Protocorinthian olpe, or pitcher, that is the name vase of the Chigi Painter.
It was found in an Etruscan tomb at Monte Aguzzo, near Veio, on Prince Mario Chigi's estate in 1881. The vase has been variously assigned to the middle and late protocorinthian periods and given a date of ca. 650-640 BC; it is now in the National Etruscan Museum, Villa Giulia, Rome.
The vase stands 26 cm tall, which is modest compared to other Greek vases. Some three-quarters of the vase is preserved.
It was found amidst a large number of potsherds of mixed provenance, including one bucchero vessel inscribed with five lines in two early Etruscan alphabets announcing the ownership of Atianai, perhaps also the original owner of the Chigi vase. The Chigi vase itself is a polychromatic work decorated in four friezes of mythological and genre scenes and four bands of ornamentation; amongst these tableaux is the earliest representation of the hoplite phalanx formation-the sole pictorial evidence of its use in the mid-to late-7th century, and terminus post quem of the hoplite reform that altered military tactics.
The lowest frieze is a hunting scene in which three naked short-haired hunters and a pack of dogs endeavour to catch hares and one vixen; a kneeling hunter carries a lagobolon as he signals to his fellows to stay behind a bush. It is not clear from the surviving fragments if a tr
It was found in an Etruscan tomb at Monte Aguzzo, near Veio, on Prince Mario Chigi's estate in 1881. The vase has been variously assigned to the middle and late protocorinthian periods and given a date of ca. 650-640 BC; it is now in the National Etruscan Museum, Villa Giulia, Rome.
The vase stands 26 cm tall, which is modest compared to other Greek vases. Some three-quarters of the vase is preserved.
It was found amidst a large number of potsherds of mixed provenance, including one bucchero vessel inscribed with five lines in two early Etruscan alphabets announcing the ownership of Atianai, perhaps also the original owner of the Chigi vase. The Chigi vase itself is a polychromatic work decorated in four friezes of mythological and genre scenes and four bands of ornamentation; amongst these tableaux is the earliest representation of the hoplite phalanx formation-the sole pictorial evidence of its use in the mid-to late-7th century, and terminus post quem of the hoplite reform that altered military tactics.
The lowest frieze is a hunting scene in which three naked short-haired hunters and a pack of dogs endeavour to catch hares and one vixen; a kneeling hunter carries a lagobolon as he signals to his fellows to stay behind a bush. It is not clear from the surviving fragments if a tr
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