Altenburg class

As Altenburg class (English Altenburg Class ) is a class Attic - black-figure oinochoe from the first quarter of the 5th century BC. Chr. Designated. These are type I oinochoes with an ovoid body, long neck with decorated collar, high handle and echinus-shaped foot. The class was named by John D. Beazley after a vase in the Lindenau Museum in Altenburg . Beazley did not make any attributions to painters, but they all belong to one workshop.

literature

• John D. Beazley : Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters . Clarendon Press, Oxford 1956, pp. 422-423.
• John D. Beazley: Paralipomena . Clarendon Press, Oxford 1971, pp. 181-182.
• John Boardman : Black-Figure Vases from Athens. A handbook (= cultural history of the ancient world . Vol. 1). Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1977, ISBN 3-8053-0233-9 , p. 163.