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THE VASES AND VASE FRAGMENTS
place. It was fairly well represented at .the Heraeum ; whole vases were scarce, but the
fragments filled nearly half a dozen baskets. Such fragments as are preserved show
nothing new; the forms of the vases differ in no way from the usual Corinthian types,
and the scheme of decoration is identically the same.
Whether all the Corinthian fragments found at the Heraeum were manufactured at
Argos is impossible to say. It has not been proved that the various vases of the style
scattered over the Greek world were all made in Corinth,1 and it is undoubtly true
that after the style became thoroughly known its manufacture was carried on in other
places than Corinth, just as a great deal of the Mycenaean ware found in Greece must
have been manufactured outside of the Argolid. As Corinth lies so near Argos
(only thirty miles away), the importation of the style into the latter place would be per-
fectly possible. At all events, the internal evidence of the Corinthian fragments found
at the Heraeum throws no light on the question.
Wilisch has divided the Corinthian style into two classes, the elder and the younger.
With the exception of three fragments the elder class only is found at the Heraeum.
This may serve to show that the Corinthian vases were manufactured in the Aro-olid
•J O
and not imported, since after the Corinthian style very few fragments of any class of
vases are found at the Heraeum, while if the reverse were the case, it would be an
extremely curious fact to find the importation of a style suddenly ceasing, without
any definite reason. There is no literary evidence to show that Argos ever enacted an
embargo against the products of Corinth as she did in the case of Athens.
The forms found at the Heraeum are: —
Skyphos,
Oinoehoe,
Pyxis,
Sugar Bowl,
Tripod Bowl.
Alabastron,
Aryhallos,
Amphora,
Askos,
Kylix,
Kothon.
Plate.
Wilisch's statement {pp. tit. p. 21) that the skyphos is the only form peculiar to both
the Argive and Corinthian styles is certainly incorrect, since several fragments belonging
to oinochoai of the type on p. 127 were found with Corinthian decoration,2 and as we
have seen, the Argive style included all the forms in the above list with the exception of
the kylix and the tripod bowl. The decoration on all the fragments Avas distinctly poor,
few showing really good technique. Most of them wrere found on the Second Temple
Terrace in the pocket towards the southeast and under the retaining wall of the West
Building (southwest corner). The number of bottoms (of skyphoi and oinochoai) far ex-
ceeded the fragments which belonged to the upper part of such vases. Though as a
rule the clay of the Corinthian vases is rather more grayish in tone than in the Argive,
it was impossible in most cases to decide whether such fragments belonged to Argive
or Corinthian vases, the decoration in both styles (ray pattern) being identical. Some
of these vases, however, showed just enough of the main zone to established their identity
as Corinthian.
1 It is perfectly certain, through the presence of in- (A 1035) with three zones of figures. I noted in the
scriptious, that vases of this style were manufactured in
Sikyon (Kretschmer, Griechische Vaseninscliriften, p. 50 ;
cf. also p. 185, No. 1). Hence Argos may well have made
some herself.
2 The British Museum possesses such an oinoehoe
Naples Museum an oinoehoe of the Argive style, which
had Corinthian decoration over the parallel bands. I was
unable to examine the vase, but feel sure that the Corin-
thian decoration is modern. Cf. J. H. S. XI. (1890), p.
175.
THE VASES AND VASE FRAGMENTS
place. It was fairly well represented at .the Heraeum ; whole vases were scarce, but the
fragments filled nearly half a dozen baskets. Such fragments as are preserved show
nothing new; the forms of the vases differ in no way from the usual Corinthian types,
and the scheme of decoration is identically the same.
Whether all the Corinthian fragments found at the Heraeum were manufactured at
Argos is impossible to say. It has not been proved that the various vases of the style
scattered over the Greek world were all made in Corinth,1 and it is undoubtly true
that after the style became thoroughly known its manufacture was carried on in other
places than Corinth, just as a great deal of the Mycenaean ware found in Greece must
have been manufactured outside of the Argolid. As Corinth lies so near Argos
(only thirty miles away), the importation of the style into the latter place would be per-
fectly possible. At all events, the internal evidence of the Corinthian fragments found
at the Heraeum throws no light on the question.
Wilisch has divided the Corinthian style into two classes, the elder and the younger.
With the exception of three fragments the elder class only is found at the Heraeum.
This may serve to show that the Corinthian vases were manufactured in the Aro-olid
•J O
and not imported, since after the Corinthian style very few fragments of any class of
vases are found at the Heraeum, while if the reverse were the case, it would be an
extremely curious fact to find the importation of a style suddenly ceasing, without
any definite reason. There is no literary evidence to show that Argos ever enacted an
embargo against the products of Corinth as she did in the case of Athens.
The forms found at the Heraeum are: —
Skyphos,
Oinoehoe,
Pyxis,
Sugar Bowl,
Tripod Bowl.
Alabastron,
Aryhallos,
Amphora,
Askos,
Kylix,
Kothon.
Plate.
Wilisch's statement {pp. tit. p. 21) that the skyphos is the only form peculiar to both
the Argive and Corinthian styles is certainly incorrect, since several fragments belonging
to oinochoai of the type on p. 127 were found with Corinthian decoration,2 and as we
have seen, the Argive style included all the forms in the above list with the exception of
the kylix and the tripod bowl. The decoration on all the fragments Avas distinctly poor,
few showing really good technique. Most of them wrere found on the Second Temple
Terrace in the pocket towards the southeast and under the retaining wall of the West
Building (southwest corner). The number of bottoms (of skyphoi and oinochoai) far ex-
ceeded the fragments which belonged to the upper part of such vases. Though as a
rule the clay of the Corinthian vases is rather more grayish in tone than in the Argive,
it was impossible in most cases to decide whether such fragments belonged to Argive
or Corinthian vases, the decoration in both styles (ray pattern) being identical. Some
of these vases, however, showed just enough of the main zone to established their identity
as Corinthian.
1 It is perfectly certain, through the presence of in- (A 1035) with three zones of figures. I noted in the
scriptious, that vases of this style were manufactured in
Sikyon (Kretschmer, Griechische Vaseninscliriften, p. 50 ;
cf. also p. 185, No. 1). Hence Argos may well have made
some herself.
2 The British Museum possesses such an oinoehoe
Naples Museum an oinoehoe of the Argive style, which
had Corinthian decoration over the parallel bands. I was
unable to examine the vase, but feel sure that the Corin-
thian decoration is modern. Cf. J. H. S. XI. (1890), p.
175.