Athens, Etruria, and the Many Lives of Greek Figured Pottery

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-0-299-32104-8
Verlag: University of Wisconsin Press

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 203 mm x 254 mm

Reihe: Wisconsin Studies in Classics

A lucrative trade in Athenian pottery flourished from the early sixth until the late fifth century B.C.E., finding an eager market in Etruria. Most studies of these painted vases focus on the artistry and worldview of the Greeks who made them, but Sheramy D. Bundrick shifts attention to their Etruscan customers, ancient trade networks, and archaeological contexts.

Thousands of Greek painted vases have emerged from excavations of tombs, sanctuaries, and settlements throughout Etruria, from southern coastal centers to northern communities in the Po Valley. Using documented archaeological assemblages, especially from tombs in southern Etruria, Bundrick challenges the widely held assumption that Etruscans were hellenized through Greek imports. She marshals evidence to show that Etruscan consumers purposefully selected figured pottery that harmonized with their own local needs and customs, so much so that the vases are better described as etruscanized. Athenian ceramic workers, she contends, learned from traders which shapes and imagery sold best to the Etruscans and employed a variety of strategies to maximize artistry, output, and profit.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Keramik, Porzellan, Glaskunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Klassisch (Griechisch & Römisch)
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- 1 The Many Lives of Athenian Vases
- 2 The Nature of the Athenian Vase Trade
- Findspots and Distribution Data
- Pottery Workshop Deposits in Athens
- Trademarks, Batch Notations, and Price Inscriptions
- Shipwrecks with Commercial Cargo
- Conclusions
- 3 Context, Consumption, and Attic Vases in Etruria
- Liminality, Performativity, and Attic Vases in Etruscan Tombs
- A Tale of Two Assemblages
- Conclusions
- 4 Athenian Eye Cups Abroad
- Apotropaion vs. Symposion
- Athenian Eye Cups at Etruscan Vulci
- Conclusions
- 5 The Mastery of Water
- Herakles Meets the Merman
- Fountainhouse Hydriai and the Etruscan Culto dell’Acqua
- Conclusions
- 6 Attic Vases as Etruscan Cineraria
- Tarquinia
- Caere
- Vulci
- Foiano della Chiana
- Conclusions
- 7 The Etruscanization of Attic Figured Pottery
- Notes
- References
- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Sheramy D. Bundrick is a professor of art history at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg. She is the author of Music and Image in Classical Athens.