Le brocche attiche di forma VI della tomba 422 di Valle Trebba a Spina

The article is prompted by two rare figured Attic jugs of shape VI from Tomb 422 in the Valle Trebba necropolis at Spina and provides an opportunity to retrace the history and development of this type of oinochoe, between Etruscan production and Greek imitation. The iconographic motif of the eagles and the hare is examined in its different semantic values in Greece and Etruria. The two vases are then contextualised within the individual tomb and, more broadly, within the framework of local funerary ritual, which is characterised by the duplication of the form. The analysis thus culminates in an interpretation of the shape and imagery of the two jugs that emphasises the coherence of the message conveyed by the various elements of the grave assemblage, belonging to a woman inhumed in the final decades of the fifth century BC.