Payne, Humfry: Necrocorinthia: a study of Corinthian art in the Archaic period (Oxford, 1931)

THE CORINTHIAN FIGURE STYLE n3

The last phase, as Pfuhl has pointed out,1 is shown by the fragment with
part of a gigantomachy on one side, and of a frontal quadriga on the other.2
The picture on the front with three-dimensional folds of ripe archaic type
cannot be earlier than c. 510-500 B.C.3

1 i, 212.

2 Pfuhl fig. 188; A.D. ii. pi. 29, 23.

3 I do not quite see why this fragment should up-
set the whole chronology as Pfuhl says. He himself
remarks on the perspective in which the wheels of
the chariot on the back are drawn: this is admittedly
a late feature. But it need not surprise us if the scene
on the back does look very much more archaic than
that on the front. For the pinakes just discussed

show the same degree of conservatism, and are cer-
tainly not much earlier. Neither is the retention of
the form £ for iota a difficulty; for we find it on
several of the other late works discussed above. For
Attic parallels to the gigantomachy fragment one
need not look further than the Cup with Sleep and
Death (Pfuhl fig. 345) and (for the drapery) the
Oltan Cup (ibid. fig. 358).

Fig. 39 bis, from no. 995A.

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