A “Spurinas Group” Bowl in the Getty Collection
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Rex E. Wallace
Abstract
A terracotta bowl in the collection of antiquities in the J. Paul Getty Museum is the latest entry to an assemblage of Etruscan ceramics known as the “Spurinas Group.” The interior of the bowl was painted with the name calprnies, the earliest known reference to a family whose Roman branch includes several distinguished members. The paper reports on the dipinto’s paleography, the morphology, and derivational history of the Etruscan name calprnies, and its connection to its Latin counterpart, Calpurnius.
Acknowledgments
I thank Claire Lyons, the curator for antiquities at the Getty Museum, for discussing the form of the bowl and its decoration. Thanks also to Bill Regier for reading and commenting on an earlier draft of the paper. The images are published courtesy of the Getty’s Open Content Program, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA.
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