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Impasto is a type of coarse Etruscan pottery. The defining characteristic is that the clay contains chips of mica or stone.Nigel Spivey, ''Etruscan Art'', page 35 In G.A. Mansuelli's, ''The Art of Etruria and Early Rome'' (1964), the term "impasto pottery" is described in the following way: "Ceramic technique characteristic of hand-worked vases. By 'impasto pottery' is generally meant that of pre-historic times, of the Iron Age or later, made of impure clay with silica content." (p. 236)


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Bucchero Bucchero () is a class of ceramics produced in central Italy by the region's pre-Roman Etruscan population. This Italian word is derived from the Latin ''poculum'', a drinking-vessel, perhaps through the Spanish ''bĂșcaro'', or the Portuguese ' ...


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Archaeological artefact types Etruscan ceramics {{Etruria-stub