Sulla genesi e sviluppo delle coppe con tubi nel simposio etrusco di età orientalizzante

The study analyzes the Etruscan vases with suction pipes of a shape called variously, cup for ritual libations, kylix of the kadiskos type, cup of the “Caere - Satricum” type, cup for sucking or suction vase. The identification and attribution of four new specimens (in Etruscan-geometric pottery, in impasto and two in bucchero) belonging to this vase shape allows us to deepen with new elements the discussion on its genesis and its development in Etruria and central Italy. The new subdivision into 4 Groups (A, B, C, D) corresponds both to a chronological evolution of the shape and to a partial change in its use. Comparisons from the Near Eastern and Cypriot areas confirm that women also used vases with tubes or straws to drink from vases. This allows us to refer the use of Etruscan vases with suction pipes to aristocratic people of both sexes, during ceremonies that established and celebrated close bonds