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Lekanai in Laon and Tübingen
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 September 2013
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In Volume lxxx of the Journal of Hellenic Studies I published a first attempt at distinguishing black-figured lekanai made in Euboea. There eight vases of this shape were discussed and brought into relation with the little that was known of Eretrian and other Euboean sixth-century vase-painting. Since then a lekane in Reading has been attributed to Eretria. I now offer five more for consideration, together with two vases of other shapes which go with them.
In the Musée Archéologique at Laon there is a lekane decorated on the outside with a band of palmettes and lotus flowers in unincised black-figure, standing on interlacing stalks (Plate 28, a). Inside in the tondo there is a scene in incised black-figure showing a youth about to catch a young hare that is cowering on the ground (Plate 28, b).
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1 ‘Euboean Lekanai’, JHS lxxx (1960) 160–7, plates ix–xv.
2 Ure, A. D., ‘An Eretrian Lekane in Reading’, BICS xii (1965) 22–6Google Scholar, plates i–iii.
3 For permission to publish photographs of vases in Laon, Tübingen, and Würzburg I have to thank Madame A. N. Rollas, Professor U. Hausmann, and Professor Erika Simon. I am also indebted to Dr. Guntram Beckel, who has given me much help with the kantharos in Würzburg. The late Professor K. A. Rhomaios many years ago gave me permission to study the vases in the Museum at Nauplia and to publish photographs taken there. To his manes I now offer my thanks. Those photographs are now too faded to use, but Madame Lilly Ghali Kahil with her customary generosity has lent me two of her own for PLATE 281d and 28e. To her my warmest thanks, as also to Mr. John Boardman for the photograph of the fragment in Oxford and to Mr. Michael Vickers for permission to publish it.
4 Inv. no. 37 993, diam. 22 cm.
5 Inv. no. 534, diam. 22 cm. From the Nikandros collection.
6 For ‘zeds’, reversed or otherwise, on the rim see JHS lxxx (1960) pls. I, XI, X.V passim. For the spot (smaller than usual) within a small circle see ibid. pls. XI 1, XII 1, XIV I,XV3.
7 For ‘continuous’ handles see JHS lxxx (1960) 160, pl. XI 1, XII 1, XIII 1, XIV 1, XV 3, 4.
8 For absence of incision on Euboean vases see Ure, A. D., ‘Unincised Black Figure’, BICS vi (1959) 1–5.Google Scholar
9 The applied red and white are now faded and do not show up well in the illustrations. They can easily be made out on the vases in Laon and Nauplia.
10 E. Langlotz, Martin von Wagner Museum der Universität Würzburg, Griechische Vasen 89, no. 466, pl. 134. From the Margaritis collection.
11 Watzinger, Griechische Vasen in Tübingen, D31, inv. 1281, plate 13. Diam. 35 cm.
12 Diam. 30 cm.
13 Ashmolean Museum, inv. 1974–389.
14 Diam. 26 cm. For a catalogue of the contents of grave 126 see P. N. Ure, Sixth and Fifth Century Pottery from Rhitsona 94–6.
15 I have no note of the shape of the handles of the Mikas vase.
16 For Boeotian kylix ware see P. N. Ure, op. cit. 12 ff.