070 - Potnia Thérôn

ETRUSCAN / (Text translated by Google) / First work of inspiration Etruscan and Minoan painted on a background of lead. Important work in two respects, since it is originally a series of a dozen tables Etruscan, made mostly in 2007 and another series Minoan completed in 2008.
The motif is taken from a bronze disc, decorated in repulsed, which acted as a lid to a vessel. This is of Cretan origin with a face and clothing typical of the local directory. Discovery Montebelluna north of Este. The Etruscan influence,
from seventh to third century BC, however, is predominant, especially the face entirely characteristic of bronzes repulsed at the time. The pattern, called “Potnia Theron" is certainly a goddess wearing a strange object shaped like a cross and flanked by a bird on the back with a lotus flower in its beak and a dog in front, which initially turned his back! If the symbolic attribute increased to overreach by our goddess, has not yet been identified, it resembles the monogram of a living artist from 2200 to 2700 years later! If you have not guessed what artist it is, think of the later Strasbourg’s monogramist ?
Potnia Theron: "Mistress of Animals" Title ancient goddess of Minoan civilization of Crete in the Aegean Sea between 2700-1450 BC. Later, the Greeks called her Artemis and have often shown surrounded by animals crawling.
Situla: situla the vase was truncated with the narrowed-down, sharp edge to the shoulder or slightly rounded, broad, short neck, the flat lid barely rounded or pointed at the center. Large situlae of all materials were part of the equipment of the temples. Small in size, equipped with a handle, the situlae calcite, earthenware or metal used to carry water from spraying ritual. Its use is suitable for cultivation fields of urns.