Ama group

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The Ama group (also Ama ... group and AMA group ) is a group of ancient Greek vase painters who worked towards the end of the 6th century BC. Chr. In Athens were employed, respectively.

The Ama group was active around the same time as the so-called " pioneer group " of the red-figure style , possibly a little before this. The representatives of the group belonged to the early red-figure bowl painters . Like other bowl painters of this time, the painters in the group did not yet test the possibilities of the new technology to the same depth as the representatives of the pioneer group on larger vases, due to the comparatively smaller work surface - the inside and the two outside of the bowls. Nevertheless, the bowl painters also contributed to the success of the new style.

John D. Beazley recognized the style of the group within the ten thousand-part inventory of well-known Attic red-figure vases and fragments and fundamentally put their works together. The surviving oeuvre of the group is very small and in Beazley's case only includes a known shell fragment and another shell fragment lined up around it. The group received their emergency names from an inscription on the name vase , which, like the second, bilingual fragment from the group of Abnormal Eye-cups, belongs to the holdings of the National Archaeological Museum in Florence . The fragmented inscription consists of the Ama resulting Greek letters ancient Greek ΑΜΑ and ancient Greek Ε what Beazley on the possible signature hesitant ancient Greek Αμα [σις] ε [ποιεσεν] added: epoiesen Amasis , Amasis did it . This would mean the potter Amasis , who mainly employed black-figure vase painters and was active at the time of the manufacture of this bowl, who would probably be the potter of this vessel. For this very reason, Beazley rejected the idea, which is why the potter is simply listed under Ama ... from then on . Nevertheless, the connection between Ama ..., Ama group and Amasis is a problem that has been dealt with repeatedly in research. Very little remains of the drawing itself. The second fragmented bowl with a black-figure inside picture and red-figure outside pictures , which Beazley placed in the immediate vicinity of the group, reminded him of the work of the Goluchow painter and the drawings on a very early red-figure hydria from the Berlin Collection of Antiquities . The black and red figure drawings of the second bowl were assigned to the same bilingual draftsman by Beazley and later by Beth Cohen and Joan R. Mertens .

In a certain connection to the two fragments of the Ama group there are two further fragments which may belong together and which formerly belonged to Herbert A. Cahn . The smaller but more important fragment bears the fragmented inscription ancient Greek ] ΜΑΣΙΣ ( ] masis ), which must surely be added to Amasis , the larger fragment next to a favorite name carries the inscription ancient Greek ] ΣΕΠΟΙΕ [ΣΕΝ] ( ] sepoie [sen] - has done ). Both pieces, decorated with red figures, were assigned to Scythians as vase painters. Mertens suggests that the second Florentine bowl could also have been decorated by Scythians, with which the Ama group could be assigned to the work of Scythians. In the first edition of his Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters , Beazley states that the red-figure drawings have nothing in common with the black-figure works of the Amasis painter . He did not repeat this in the second edition. But the black-figure works of the Ama group and the Amasis painter differ too much to be from one source. Perhaps the potter Amasis employed various vase painters for bowls on one side and other vessels on the other.

List of works

  1. Shell fragment; Museo archeologico nazionale di Firenze , Florence , inventory number 1B6 (= 1B7); Motif inside: satyr
  2. Abnormal eye-cup (fragmented); Museo archeologico nazionale di Firenze, Florence, inventory number AB1 (= 1B5); Motif A – B: Dionysus mask between eyes, inner motif: satyr

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ inventory number 2174; John D. Beazley: Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford 1963², p. 12.8; Elke Böhr : Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Germany Volume 74, Berlin, Antikensammlung Volume 9, CH Beck, Munich 2002 pp. 9, 13-15, enclosure 1.1, tables: (3691,3692,3745,3746) 1.1-3, 2.1-4 , 55.3, 56.1 digitized ; Entry on the Beazley Archive website
  2. ^ Joan R. Mertens: The Amasis Painter: Artist and Tradition. In: Papers on the Amasis Painter and His World. A Colloquium Sponsored by the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities and a Symposium Sponsored by the J. Paul Getty Museum. Getty Publications, Malibu 1987, ISBN 0892360933 , pp. 168-186.
  3. ↑ John D. Beazley: Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford 1963², p. 160; Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Italy: Florence, Regio Museo Archeologico 1, S. III.I.3, plates: (376) 1.6-7 digitized ; Entry on the Beazley Archive website
  4. ↑ John D. Beazley: Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford 1963², pp. 37.4, 160; Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Italy: Florence, Regio Museo Archeologico 1, S. III.I.3, III.I.24, III.I.25, plates: (376,400) 1.5.7, 25.1 digitized ; Entry on the Beazley Archive website