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Observations on Euboean Black-figure

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 September 2013

A. D. Ure
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It is more than twenty years since John Boardman with his ‘Pottery from Eretria’, published in Volume xlvii of this Annual, aroused a fresh interest in the study of Euboean pottery. A certain amount of work has been done on the subject since then, but there has been no controlled digging of cemeteries from which the main lines of the development of Euboean vase-painting in the sixth and fifth centuries can be established. So owing to the lack of external evidence, research on the subject continues to advance in a haphazard fashion and consists to a great extent in guesswork based on scanty material, as has recently been pointed out by Dietrich von Bothmer in his ‘Euboean Black-figure in New York’, the latest contribution to the subject. I wish here to add some more to the small corpus of vases already attributed, observing their relationship to the three great Eretrian amphorae in Athens and to one another.

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Annual of the British School at Athens , Volume 68 , November 1973 , pp. 25 - 31
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Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1973

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References

1 BSA xlvii (1952) 1–48; referred to here as ‘Boardman’.

2 Boardman, J., ‘Early Euboean Pottery and History’, BSA lii (1957) 1–29.Google ScholarUre, A. D., ‘Euboean Lekanai’, JHS lxxx (1960) 160–7CrossRefGoogle Scholar; ‘Four Lekythoi in Chalcis’ JHS lxxxii (1962) 138–40; ‘Small Vases from Euboean Workshops’, BSA lviii (1963) 14–19; ‘An Eretrian Lekane in Reading’, BICS xii (1965) 22–6; ‘A Corinthian Cup and a Euboean Lekythos’, JHS lxxxviii (1968) 140–1; von Bothmer, D., ‘Euboean Black-figure in New York’, Metropolitan Museum Journal ii (1969) 27–44CrossRefGoogle Scholar, referred to here as ‘Bothmer’. A list of publications dealing with Euboean Floral Black-figure is given in BSA lxv (1970) 265 n. 1.

3 Loc. cit. (n. 2) 44.

4 Most of the vases here dealt with are in the National Museum at Athens and I am much indebted to Dr. V. G. Callipolitis and Dr. Barbara Philippaki for photographs and permission to publish them, as well as for answering frequent requests for information. In Thebes over the years Mrs. Touloupa and Dr. T. G. Spyropoulos have put me similarly in their debt and I take this opportunity of thanking them. My thanks are also due to Dr. D. Ahrens and Professor A. Cambitoglou for allowing me to publish photographs of vases in Munich and Sydney.

5 Athens 1004; Boardman pl. 9a, b; JHS lxxx (1960) pl. 13.4, 5.

6 Athens 12075; Boardman pl. 10a, b.

7 Skudnova 50.

8 For markings in added colour on bulls and rams and other quadrupeds see JHS lxxx (1960) 162.

9 Münzen und Medaillen Auktion 34 (6 May 1967) pl. 34 no. 128.

10 AA 1912, 360 fig. 50; JHS lxxxii (1962) 139; Bothmer 28.

11 e.g. BSA lxv (1970) pl. 69c and see p. 266.

12 No known provenance. A thick dripring painted witth black spots round the neck, lip missing.

13 Nowhere illustrated except for the tail and part of one wing, JHS lxxx (1960) pl. 10.4.

14 See above, n. 13.

15 Archaeological Reports for 1962–63 56 f. no. 5, and see Paralipomena 50. At the time of writing the Report I had failed to convince Sir John Beazley that the hydria was Eretrian, though he agreed that it was not by the painter of Vatican 309. The words in inverted commas in the Report are from a letter to me from Sir John and do not include ‘perhaps’.

16 Inv. 120. Ht. 22 cm. No provenance known.

17 Cf. the Attic skyphoi described JHS lxxv (1955) 93.

18 JHS lxxxii (1962) 140.

19 JHS lxxx (1960) pl. 9.6.

20 Ibid. pl. 10.6; BICS vi (1959) pl. 3.4.

21 JHS lxxx (1960) pl. 9.1, 2.

22 JHS lxxxii (1962) 139 pl. 9.1, 2, 3.

23 Paralipomena 199.

24 To be published in the Dunedin fascicule of the Corpus Vasorum. I am grateful to Dr. J. R. Green for information about this vase.

25 Inv. 50.270, BSA. xiv 261; Sixth 42.

26 For the relative dating of grave 51 see the table on p. 78 of Sixth and Fifth Century Pottery from Rhitsona which shows the chronological grouping of graves from the mid sixth century onwards.

27 Inv. 51.228, 229, BSA xiv. 268 pl. 9 f. (228); Sixth 42 Class C pl. 13 (229). See also JHS lxxx (1960) 164 n. 23; Paralipomena 201.

28 AA 1960 col. 77 no. 10 and col. 86 fig. 17.

29 Bothmer fig. 13, bibliography on p. 34.

30 AA 1918 col. 126 fig. 14; ABV 716, addendum to 698.

31 JHS lxxxviii (1968) 140 pl. 7 and lxxxii (1962) pl. 10.1, 2.

32 The lip and neck of both E 1395 and 1396 have been broken off and repaired with plaster and the existing lips of both vases are alien. I have to thank Dr. Barbara Philippaki for examining the vases for me. She tells me that the restorations have now been removed.

33 Gr. 50 no. 269. BSA xiv pl. 10k.

34 BICS xii (1965) pl. 1.5, 6.

35 Bothmer fig. 1.

36 Cf. Bothmer fig. 5.

37 Paralipomena 203.

38 Compare too the flame-like tongues of paint that frequently diverge from the ground line, BSA lviii (1963) 16, 18 pl. 2.5–7; JHS lxxxviii (1968) 140 pl. 7 (bottom right); BSA lxv (1970) 266 pl. 69d, e.

39 Paralipomena 203. Both these vases, formerly in my possession, are now the property of the British School at Athens.

40 No. 2 in the list Bothmer 39.

41 See JHS lxxxii (1962) 139.

42 BSA lviii. 18.

43 Beazley Group of Thebes R102, ABV 624–5.

44 Sixth 63 f., 86 pl. xix passim.

45 ABV 591. Group of Rodin 152.

46 Beazley, Paralipomena 199.

47 p. 38.

48 CV Reading i pl. 11.6. There catalogued as Attic.

49 BSA Iv pl. 56.3.

50 Paralipomena 195.

51 Bothmer 31 f.

52 Inv. 60.8.2. Ht. 14 cm. Bothmer 32 no. 9; Paralipomena 200.

53 Haspels, ABL pl. 5.1.

54 Inv. 51.4.8. Ht. 18 cm. Bothmer 32 no. 8. ABV 458 no. 25.

55 JHS lxxxii (1962) pl. 10.1, 2.

56 Inv. 5601, 5602. Trendall, , ‘Greek Vases in Sydney’, The Gazette, University of Sydney i. 12 (Sept. 1956) 165 f.Google Scholar; Fasti Arch, xi (1956) pl. 3.9; Beazley, Paralipomena 200.

57 Bothmer 44 n. 57 says ‘Most, if not all the oinochoai of Beazley's Class of the Oxford Siren-jug (ABV 420) should also be claimed for Euboea, especially those that according to Beazley (op. cit.) are related to the Dolphin Group’ and in these the Siren-jug itself is included.

58 JHS lxxxii (1962) 138 pl. 9.1–3.

59 Sotheby Sak Catalogue, 27th March 1972, pl. 11.150.

60 ABV 420 no. 2; AA 1911, 224 fig. 32.

61 We see a straight white central petal on a lotus in full bloom on the Eretrian lekane in Reading, , BICS xii (1965) pl. 3.1, 3Google Scholar, and on the foot of the Wedding amphora ibid. 2. Also on both kinds of lotus on one and the same vase, Bothmer fig. 5.

62 CV Rhodes ii, Italia pl. 494 nos. 6 and 8, oinochoai with pendent lotuses, appear to be related. Beazley suggests that they may be decorated by the same hand: Paralipomena 178.

63 Formerly in the Empedokles collection. No provenance. Ht. with lid 6·5 cm., diam. 6 cm.

64 CV Oxford ii pl. 13.3.

65 AJA xlv (1941) 65 figs, 1, 3.

66 Sixth 67 pl. 21, 26.104, 135.76, BSA xiv pl. 11c, 26.93.

67 CV Reading i pl. 17.3.

68 See Hesperia xxxi (1962) 376 f. pl. 113.22; BS lxv (1970) 269.