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Small vases from Euboean workshops*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 October 2013

A. D. Ure
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Perhaps the most popular vase shape in Euboea in the fourth century was the lidded lekanis. A number of specimens, decorated with floral motives on the lid and simple leaves or linear patterns on the receptacles, may be seen in BSA lv, pls. 54–57 passim. They show considerable variety in the shape of the knobs and in the treatment of the handles, but the receptacles remain fundamentally the same. Akin to these are little bowls of similar shape, lidded, but without handles. Such are the vases of a kernos of unknown provenience in Athens with a vaguely anthropomorphic central handle consisting of a long loop surmounted by a moulded head and with small arm-like projections recalling those of a herm (Plate 1, 1). The lids of three of the four little vases are preserved, the two nearest the handle having horizontal rims, while the two outer vases both had lids with rims turning vertically down, as is shown by the one extant lid and by the flanges on both the receptacles. The knobs of the two lids with horizontal rims are of a shape similar to the stemmed foot of a cup or dish; the surviving lid with down-turned rim has a ring like the footring of a stemless cup to serve as a knob. Each kind of knob, stemmed or stemless, functioned as a foot when the lid was set upside down on the table and became a dish. The low footring knobs were not unknown in Athens, but they were commoner in Euboea. One was noticed in BSA lv. 212, no. 8 on a lid, not figured, belonging to the Bonn group of floral black-figure, which is undoubtedly of Euboean, and very probably of Chalcidian manufacture. We shall see more of them later on.

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Annual of the British School at Athens , Volume 58 , November 1963 , pp. 14 - 19
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Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1963

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References

1 See BSA lv. 216.

2 NM 13258. H. to top of handle 15·5 cm., diam. of each bowl 5·5 cm.

3 I am indebted to Mr. R. A. Higgins for some helpful observations on the kernos.

4 Diam. 8 cm.

5 On the base of a skyphos in Reading, , Hesperia xxxi (1962) pl. 113.Google Scholar

6 BSA lv. 217.

7 H. 6 cm., diam. 7·5 cm.

8 BICS viii (1961) 1 ff., pl. i. 1–4.

9 Robinson, , Olynthus xiii, pl. 12. 3.Google Scholar

10 Etruscan Vase-painting 183 (EVP).

11 Ibid. 304.

12 Madame de la Genière has very kindly looked at the vase for me and has confirmed my note on it.

13 A number of sixth-century vases from Etruscan sites, and especially from Vulci, seem to be more closely related to what we know of Euboean black-figure than to Attic.

14 The resemblance in shape between these and the sixth-century Corinthian pyxides, Payne, NC 305 f.Google Scholar, fig. 141, is probably fortuitous.

15 Height of each 6·5 cm.

16 H. 7 cm.

17 See BSA lv. 217; BICS viii. (1961) 4.

18 A 156. Height, as it stands on a plaster foot to the top of the broken neck, 10·5 cm.

19 G 236. H. 9·9 cm.

20 See BSA lv. 216 f., pls. 54. 1, 2; 55. 6; 56. 1; 57. 5, 6.

21 H. 6·3 cm., diam. 9·2 cm.

22 Now illustrated in Archaeologia Classica xiv (1962) pl. xxi. 2.

23 H. 5·5 cm., diam. 6·7 cm.; H. 6·5 cm., diam. 9·7 cm.; H. 9 cm., diam. 11·4 cm.; H. 10 cm., diam. 13 cm.

24 H. 7 cm., diam. 8 cm.

25 Diam. c. 8 cm.

26 H. 7·3 cm. Provenience not known.

27 341. H. 9 cm.

28 I know this vase only from the illustration and description in Baur's Catalogue.

29 These little cups must be distinguished from the even smaller Corinthian skyphoi found in great abundance at Rhitsona from the middle of the sixth to the last quarter of the fifth century, e.g. Ure, , Aryballoi and Figurines pl. xx, 138. 1–6Google Scholar; Sixth and Fifth pl. xxiv, 114a. 1–5.

30 Nos. 16–22, BSA xiv. 258.

31 Nos. 10, 11, ibid. 251.

32 A study of these is in preparation.

33 No. 41, BSA xiv. 273. H. 10 cm.

34 For the date of grave 31 see Haspels, , ABL 108Google Scholar; JHS lvii (1937) 265, lviii (1938) 257, 258.

35 H. 10·2 cm.

36 Three kylikes are included in a group of floral vases assigned to Euboea, in BICS viii (1961) 1 ff.Google Scholar

37 H. 5 cm., diam. 9·4 cm.

38 H. 3·5 cm., diam. 7 cm.

39 H. 3·8 cm., diam. 6·5 cm.

40 Cup, H. 4 cm., diam. 6 cm.; skyphos, H. 5·5 cm., diam. 7·5 cm.