DOI Seite / Zitierlink:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.8577#0080
60 THE MIDDLE AND LATE CORINTHIAN ORIENTALIZING STYLES
continued to produce vases on a considerable scale long after this date, but
these are almost invariably decorated with patterns.1
A grave at Rhitsona which must belong to about the year 550 b.C. brings
us back to the orientalizing style.2 Together with Attic lekythoi and cups
which can be dated fairly accurately by their style and by their shape, and
with various Boeotian wares, were found nearly 200 Corinthian vases. Three
of these, kotylai, were decorated with animal friezes in a style which is closely
related to that of the animal friezes on red-ground vases, but is even more
debased.3 A drawing, not from one of these vases, but from a very similar
kotyle in Athens, is shown in pi. 37, 4. Another Rhitsona grave,4 slightly
earlier than the preceding,5 contained an even larger number of Corinthian
vases, among which were a few with orientalizing decoration—aryballoi and
alabastra of the type illustrated in pi. 36. Here again the contrast with the
corresponding early types is plain enough. We can follow the same sequence
of graves still farther back: grave 86 contained akantharos of local make which
clearly reflects the Attic style of a rather early period, and probably belongs to
the end of the first quarter of the sixth century.6 A number of Corinthian
vases were found with this kantharos: alabastra of the kind illustrated on
pis. 36, 9, 12 (nos. 1205, 1217, 1217 A, b), an aryballos, small aryballoi with
very roughly drawn animals, mostly panthers (for the style, cf. pi. 36, 13)
and goats (see no. 1233 and ff.), amphoriskoi similarly decorated, and, of
course, a number of vases with simple patterns (as figs. 161-2).
The resemblance between the style of these vases and that of the red-
ground vases which we know to belong to the same period is so clear and so
consistent that it needs no further discussion; it is adequately illustrated on
pis. 36—7. It is equally clear that the style of this period presents the sharpest
contrast with that of the early Corinthian period. It is not simply that the
late vases are almost all in poor taste;7 there are plenty of bad vases in
the earlier periods (cf. for instance nos. 75 c and D, nos. 730 A, 734 A &c).
The late style has a particular character, which is certainly the expression of
a particular period.
1 Cf., for instance, Rhitsona, Ure, 6th and 5th
Century Pottery passim, and grave 26 (B.SA. xiv,
281 ff.) ; grave 31 (op. cit. 281 ff.), &c; Megara
Hyblaea grave 162 (Mon. Ant. i, 861) ; ibid. 43
(op. cit. 823), &c. On Astyochidas' vase, see p.
289, no. 555.
2 No. 51, B.SA. xiv, 265 ff. and J.H.S. 1910, 337
fig. 2. 3 See the catalogue, nos. 1335-9.
4 No. 50, B.S.A. xiv, 257 ff. and J.H.S. 1910, 337
fig. 1. Cf. also tomb 49, there published.
5 Compare the types of Attic lekythoi; the ovoid
lekythos, the earliest type, has already disappeared
in grave 51.
6 A, two lions; B, two sirens; Corinthian rosettes.
Shape roughly as Albizzati pi. 20, no. 222, but
smaller handles; style similar to that of this vase, but
more careful. So far as the style goes the vase from
Rhitsona might be a little earlier than the date
suggested, but it is not likely that this type of
kantharos goes back as far as the beginning of the
century.
7 The highest level of b.f. work in this period may
be illustrated by the innocuous vase pi. 35, 1, 4, or
by the sphinx pi. 37, 2. The animals on the very late
hydria no. 1449 (fig. 21 B and pi. 37, 3) are excep-
tionally careful.
continued to produce vases on a considerable scale long after this date, but
these are almost invariably decorated with patterns.1
A grave at Rhitsona which must belong to about the year 550 b.C. brings
us back to the orientalizing style.2 Together with Attic lekythoi and cups
which can be dated fairly accurately by their style and by their shape, and
with various Boeotian wares, were found nearly 200 Corinthian vases. Three
of these, kotylai, were decorated with animal friezes in a style which is closely
related to that of the animal friezes on red-ground vases, but is even more
debased.3 A drawing, not from one of these vases, but from a very similar
kotyle in Athens, is shown in pi. 37, 4. Another Rhitsona grave,4 slightly
earlier than the preceding,5 contained an even larger number of Corinthian
vases, among which were a few with orientalizing decoration—aryballoi and
alabastra of the type illustrated in pi. 36. Here again the contrast with the
corresponding early types is plain enough. We can follow the same sequence
of graves still farther back: grave 86 contained akantharos of local make which
clearly reflects the Attic style of a rather early period, and probably belongs to
the end of the first quarter of the sixth century.6 A number of Corinthian
vases were found with this kantharos: alabastra of the kind illustrated on
pis. 36, 9, 12 (nos. 1205, 1217, 1217 A, b), an aryballos, small aryballoi with
very roughly drawn animals, mostly panthers (for the style, cf. pi. 36, 13)
and goats (see no. 1233 and ff.), amphoriskoi similarly decorated, and, of
course, a number of vases with simple patterns (as figs. 161-2).
The resemblance between the style of these vases and that of the red-
ground vases which we know to belong to the same period is so clear and so
consistent that it needs no further discussion; it is adequately illustrated on
pis. 36—7. It is equally clear that the style of this period presents the sharpest
contrast with that of the early Corinthian period. It is not simply that the
late vases are almost all in poor taste;7 there are plenty of bad vases in
the earlier periods (cf. for instance nos. 75 c and D, nos. 730 A, 734 A &c).
The late style has a particular character, which is certainly the expression of
a particular period.
1 Cf., for instance, Rhitsona, Ure, 6th and 5th
Century Pottery passim, and grave 26 (B.SA. xiv,
281 ff.) ; grave 31 (op. cit. 281 ff.), &c; Megara
Hyblaea grave 162 (Mon. Ant. i, 861) ; ibid. 43
(op. cit. 823), &c. On Astyochidas' vase, see p.
289, no. 555.
2 No. 51, B.SA. xiv, 265 ff. and J.H.S. 1910, 337
fig. 2. 3 See the catalogue, nos. 1335-9.
4 No. 50, B.S.A. xiv, 257 ff. and J.H.S. 1910, 337
fig. 1. Cf. also tomb 49, there published.
5 Compare the types of Attic lekythoi; the ovoid
lekythos, the earliest type, has already disappeared
in grave 51.
6 A, two lions; B, two sirens; Corinthian rosettes.
Shape roughly as Albizzati pi. 20, no. 222, but
smaller handles; style similar to that of this vase, but
more careful. So far as the style goes the vase from
Rhitsona might be a little earlier than the date
suggested, but it is not likely that this type of
kantharos goes back as far as the beginning of the
century.
7 The highest level of b.f. work in this period may
be illustrated by the innocuous vase pi. 35, 1, 4, or
by the sphinx pi. 37, 2. The animals on the very late
hydria no. 1449 (fig. 21 B and pi. 37, 3) are excep-
tionally careful.