Botkin class

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The Botkin class (English Botkin Class ) is a group of small Greek neck amphoras of a special type with a broad shoulder. The class was named by John D. Beazley after the previous owner of the vase today in St. Petersburg, the painter and art collector Mikhail Pavlovich Botkin .

The following vases belong to it:

  1. Brussels, Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire A 714
  2. Milan, Civico Museo Archeologico 4636 (fragment)
  3. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts 98.923
  4. St. Petersburg, Ermitage 4464 (formerly Botkin 1059 collection)
  5. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art 11/64/13
  6. Berlin, Antikensammlung F 1713
  7. Berlin, Antikensammlung F 1714
  8. Art trade
  9. New York, private collection

The first five of these were assigned by Beazley to the Phrynos painter , the other four vases are by another painter who, according to Heide Mommsen, could also be the more fleeting late work of the Phrynos painter. Beazley counted the Botkin class among the Kleinmeister vases . Mommsen was able to show that the neck amphorae of the Botkin class are dependent on the neck amphorae of the E group and that Amasis used them as a model for its neck amphorae.

literature

  • John D. Beazley : Amasea. In: Journal of Hellenic Studies . 51, 1931, pp. 256-285, here p. 284.
  • John D. Beazley: Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1956, pp. 169-170.
  • John D. Beazley: Paralipomena. 2nd edition. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1971, pp. 70-71.
  • Heide Mommsen : The Botkin class . In: Athéna Tsingarida (ed.): Shapes and uses of Greek vases (7th – 4th centuries BC). Proceedings of the Symposium held at the Université libre de Bruxelles 27-29 April 2006 . Brussels 2009, pp. 31–46.