Pre-Nuragic Ceramics Monte Claro Culture Ancient Sardinian Art Artifact
Pre-Nuragic Ceramics Monte Claro Culture Ancient Sardinian Art Artifact
PRENURAGIC SARDINIA CERAMICS
Prehistoric Archaeological Reproduction
This ceramic belongs to the Monte Claro culture which spread throughout Sardinia in the pre-Nuragic era and takes its name from a hill in the city of Cagliari where the first artefacts were found, called Monte Claro.
The use of this type of artefact was probably of a food type for the containment and preservation of food.
The decorations of these ceramics are represented by more or less wide and deep grooves and are present both vertically and horizontally on one side only.
Height: 19cm
Max diameter: 22 cm
max circumference: 62 cm
Weight: 1,900 kg
This artifact was created and decorated entirely by hand (without the use of the lathe) with the same techniques used in prehistory, subjected to an antiquing process and finally cooked at a temperature of 950 for approximately 15 hours.
Single piece