Seven is 'o vasetto, the small pot, usually glossed in Italian as il vaso di creta, the earthenware vase. Of all the squares it is the most domestic and the least explained.
Sicily puts the book at 7 instead. Where Naples chose an object off a windowsill, Trapani chose the one thing a nineteenth-century labourer was least likely to own.
- 7
- 'O vasetto
- the clay pot
- Row 1–10 of the tabellone
Where the figure comes from
None recorded. The dictionary entries that sit on 7 lean funerary — cemetery, graveyard, a crime — which invites the guess that the pot is a grave vase rather than a kitchen one. That is a guess and it is worth marking as one.
Other things filed on 7
In Neapolitan life
Seven is the number that goes lucky almost everywhere else in Europe and carries nothing in particular here. The smorfia is not a luck ranking; it is an index. A number's place on the board says nothing about whether Naples wanted to draw it.
7 in the smorfia — frequently asked
The smorfia does not rank numbers by luck at all. It assigns each one a picture. Seven's picture is a small clay pot and it carries no verdict.
A little vase or pot. Italian lists specify earthenware, il vaso di creta.