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A Corinthian Cup and a Euboean Lekythos
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 December 2013
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In Volume lxix of this Journal I drew attention to three little vases in Reading University belonging to the group published by Wide in AM xxvi (1901) 143 f., at that time regarded as Boeotian and connected by Wide with Mykalessos. They are now known to be Corinthian, since vases and fragments in the same style have been found in the Potters' Quarter at Corinth and are now displayed in Corinth Museum. The general appearance of the vases from this workshop is far removed from that of normal Corinthian, which in the fifth century was decorated largely with floral or linear patterns. When compared with Corinthian red-figure and other vases with outline drawing the childish aspect of many of the figures, their long heavy eyelashes, dimples, chubby limbs, feet with toes on the side facing the spectator, all combine to set them in a field apart. Some of the subjects too are unusual. Among the divinities there is Demeter enthroned with torch, corn and poppies on a plate in Athens; bearded Herakles with club and bow inside cups in Reading and Athens; a youthful Herakles, weary and thirsty, leaning on his club as he fills his cup at a fountain, on a pyxis in the British Museum; Dionysos as Liknites, Winnower, horned and wearing a fawn-skin, holding fork and shovel, on a pyxis in Reading. Among the mortals we find a slinger, a girl playing kottabos and a centaur watching a tortoise inside cups in Athens, London and Leningrad. An unpublished cup in Athens, formerly in the Empedocles collection, shows a warrior advancing with his spear at the ready; another unpublished in Oxford, on loan to the Ashmolean Museum, has Oedipus and the sphinx. The only floral subject that I know is seen in the Reading cup with a rosebud between sprays. There is a replica of this (but with the bud black instead of red) in a cup with a tall foot in Corinth Museum.
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1 JHS lxix (1949) 18f.
2 See JHS lxxii (1952) 121, ‘The God with the Winnowing-fan’. The pieces in Corinth are not yet published, but see Hesperia vi (1937) 312 under no. 235.
3 Ibid. 310 f., figs. 40, 41. The upper fragment of the latter figure is surely printed upside down. It shows not the head of a walking-stick but the foot of a kantharos carried on the palm of a hand.
4 AM xxvi (1901) pl. viii; Collignon-Couve, , Cat. pl. xxxix, 1120.Google Scholar
5 CVA i (i) pl. 16 (16) 5; JHS lxix (1949) 19, fig. 1.
6 AM xxvi (1901) 146.
7 Ibid. 145; Brit. Mus. Cat. Vases iii pl. xxi, figs. 2, 3; Pfuhl, , MuZ iii fig. 611.Google Scholar
8 JHS lxix (1949) 21, fig. 3; CVA i(i) pl. 16 (16) 4.
9 AM xxvi (1901) 147.
10 Ibid. 144, Brit. Mus. Cat. Vases iii pl. xxi, fig. 1.
11 JHS lxix (1949) 23, fig. 5, from Compte-rendu de la Commission Impériale Archéologique 1901, 131, fig. 229.
12 Inv. E1183.
13 JHS lxix (1949) 21, fig. 4; CVA i(i) pl. 16 (16) 6.
14 From the Potters' Quarter, shrine A.
15 Inv. 64.7.1. Diam. 9.5cm. The picture is framed by the usual thin red circle within a black band running round the rim, and there are the usual black leaves or blobs on the outside of the rim; see the similar cup JHS lxix (1949) 19, fig. 2b. One handle is missing. The remaining handle is dipped.
16 I have profited by discussing this vase with Mr John Boardman and Mr and Mrs P. A. Hansen.
17 For thymiateria in general, see Bonner Jahrbücher 122 (1912) 1 f. (Wigand).
18 Jahrbuch xxvi (1911) pl. 1 and p. 148, fig. 66.
19 Richter, and Hall, , Red-figured Athenian Vases pl. 28.Google Scholar
20 CVA i(i) pl. 33 (33) 3 and 4; ARV 2 560, 7 and 6.
21 CVA iii (iv) pl. 9 (174) 3b.
22 Ht. 14.5 cm
23 BSA lviii (1963) 16, 18.
24 See also JHS lxxx (1960) 166 and note 29. Cf. the similar pale lines bordering the breast and back of the panther on the foot of the Eretrian Peleus vase Athens 12076 (N890); and 16184: BSA xlvii (1952) 38; JHS lxxxii (1962) pl. ix, 7.