Eastern Greek bird shells
Eastern Greek bird shells are a type of Eastern Greek vase painting .
The Eastern Greek bird shells developed around 700 BC. BC probably in Northern Ionia from the bird cotyls . Actually sub-geometric in style , the bird shells belong to the orientalizing vase painting . On average, the bowls have a diameter of 15 centimeters. As a rule, the bowls are decorated with three metopes . A hatched bird is shown in the central, long rectangular field. The side panels are decorated with hatched diamonds.
The earliest bird shells have a shoulder under the edge and have an additional point band under the decoration, underneath the bowl is black. Around 675 BC The paragraph and the point band were given up, from about 640 BC. The previous black-colored lower part of the bowl basin was left clay-ground. The lower layer has now been provided with a star or five rays. The hatched diamonds have also been replaced by small rays. Around 615 BC The dividing lines between the metope windows disappeared. At the same time, the ring base was replaced by a disc base with a depression in the middle. The production of bird shells ended after about a century around 600 BC. The successor to the bird shells were the rosette shells . In addition to the Eastern Greek bird shells, there were also Boeotian bird shells during the orientalizing period .
literature
- Thomas Mannack : Greek vase painting. An introduction. Theiss, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-8062-1743-2 , p. 91.
Web links
- The East Greek bird shells : an early export product - article by Michael Kerschner on the Milet website of RUB .