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2o4 LOCAL IMITATIONS AND
Another Locrian imitation is the fat comast from Malesina (Athens 2067,
Nicole no. 858): cf. pi. 44, 5.
It is difficult to decide whether vases like the Louvre kotyle (Gaz. Arch.
1884 pis. 1-2; cf. J.H.S. 1927,222) are to be classed as imitations of Corinthian.
The shape and minor decoration are taken directly from Corinth, and the
draped figures go back to Corinthian originals; but the style is 'pure', and
for the sake of brevity I therefore exclude work of this kind.
III. Peloponnesian.
(1) Alabastron from Bassae, Eph. Arch. 1910,289. Peculiar shape; red clay. Laconian ?
(2) Round aryballoi. Type fig. 90. Red clay, black varnish with white and red decora-
tion over the black ground. A very large class, and very widely distributed;1
sometimes referred to as Corinthian.2 The Spartan series includes miniature
examples which must be of local manufacture because they are of identical
technique with other very rough miniature vases from Sparta.
Fig. 90. Laconian aryballos. Fig. 91. Laconian aryballos. Fig. 92. Rhodian alabastron.
It is likely that another class of round aryballoi, which are certainly not Corin-
thian, was also made at Sparta. A typical example is illustrated in fig. 91.
This class is less numerous than the last. The clay is orange-red and covered
with a thick white slip. Examples have been found at Sparta (several in
Oxford), Korynthos (Deltion ii, 101), Bassae (Eph. Arch. 1910, 287 fig. 7 P
and fig. yQ; Rhitsona (J.H.S. 1910, 355 fig. 19); Delos (Dugas pi. 43, 586-8);
Cumae (Mon. Ant. xxii, pi. 54, 3); at Taranto and, no doubt, elsewhere.
The white-slip technique of course would suit an East Greek origin, but the
fact that these vases are found at Korynthos and at Bassae, the finds at which
are purely Peloponnesian in character, and at Sparta, where again Ionian
pottery does not appear to have been imported, are definitely against this
view. Dugas classifies the examples from Delos as Attic, but the evidence of
the finds makes this suggestion also improbable. Moreover, the clay is dis-
tinctly coarser than that of most Attic vases.
Examples of a third group of aryballoi which are in a sense connected with
Examples from Sparta in Oxford (mostly Korynthos, Messenia); Mon. Ant. xxii, pi. 54, 1
miniature); others in the B.M. from Camirus. Cf. (from Cumae); several in Syracuse and Taranto. '
also Argive Heraeum ii, 155 fig.92; Eph. Arch. 1910, 2 e.g. by Hackl, S.H. p. 22, nos. 292, 3; Scheur-
287 figs. 7, 8 (from Bassae); Deltion ii, 101 (from leer, C.V.A. Hague i, text to pi. 5, 15.
Another Locrian imitation is the fat comast from Malesina (Athens 2067,
Nicole no. 858): cf. pi. 44, 5.
It is difficult to decide whether vases like the Louvre kotyle (Gaz. Arch.
1884 pis. 1-2; cf. J.H.S. 1927,222) are to be classed as imitations of Corinthian.
The shape and minor decoration are taken directly from Corinth, and the
draped figures go back to Corinthian originals; but the style is 'pure', and
for the sake of brevity I therefore exclude work of this kind.
III. Peloponnesian.
(1) Alabastron from Bassae, Eph. Arch. 1910,289. Peculiar shape; red clay. Laconian ?
(2) Round aryballoi. Type fig. 90. Red clay, black varnish with white and red decora-
tion over the black ground. A very large class, and very widely distributed;1
sometimes referred to as Corinthian.2 The Spartan series includes miniature
examples which must be of local manufacture because they are of identical
technique with other very rough miniature vases from Sparta.
Fig. 90. Laconian aryballos. Fig. 91. Laconian aryballos. Fig. 92. Rhodian alabastron.
It is likely that another class of round aryballoi, which are certainly not Corin-
thian, was also made at Sparta. A typical example is illustrated in fig. 91.
This class is less numerous than the last. The clay is orange-red and covered
with a thick white slip. Examples have been found at Sparta (several in
Oxford), Korynthos (Deltion ii, 101), Bassae (Eph. Arch. 1910, 287 fig. 7 P
and fig. yQ; Rhitsona (J.H.S. 1910, 355 fig. 19); Delos (Dugas pi. 43, 586-8);
Cumae (Mon. Ant. xxii, pi. 54, 3); at Taranto and, no doubt, elsewhere.
The white-slip technique of course would suit an East Greek origin, but the
fact that these vases are found at Korynthos and at Bassae, the finds at which
are purely Peloponnesian in character, and at Sparta, where again Ionian
pottery does not appear to have been imported, are definitely against this
view. Dugas classifies the examples from Delos as Attic, but the evidence of
the finds makes this suggestion also improbable. Moreover, the clay is dis-
tinctly coarser than that of most Attic vases.
Examples of a third group of aryballoi which are in a sense connected with
Examples from Sparta in Oxford (mostly Korynthos, Messenia); Mon. Ant. xxii, pi. 54, 1
miniature); others in the B.M. from Camirus. Cf. (from Cumae); several in Syracuse and Taranto. '
also Argive Heraeum ii, 155 fig.92; Eph. Arch. 1910, 2 e.g. by Hackl, S.H. p. 22, nos. 292, 3; Scheur-
287 figs. 7, 8 (from Bassae); Deltion ii, 101 (from leer, C.V.A. Hague i, text to pi. 5, 15.