A Daunian cream terracotta juglet handle extending above the rim to the shoulders. The vessel is decorated with faded bands of painted decoration in black pigments. The vessel stands on a flat base.
 
Daunian: southern Italy, northern Apulia: Circa 500-350 BC.
 
Complete and intact; much of the painted decoration worn away and with a few minor chips, minor areas of accretion.
Height 11.9 cms (4.7 ins).
 
Provenance: UK collection of C.S. acquired early 2000’s André Munter Archéologie, Brussels, Belgium; previously Old Belgian private collection. 
 
The Daunians were an Iron Age people inhabiting northern Apulia in classical antiquity. They lived in the eponymous region Daunia, which is mostly coincident with the Province of Foggia today. Despite existing adjacent to the Greek World, they remained unaffected by Greek influence, and their pottery remained distinctively their own, until the region was absorbed into the Roman Republic in 3rd century BC.