Chalcidizing shell
Chalcidic bowls are a special form of Attic eye bowls .
Chalcidic bowls were probably made in the important workshop of the pot Nikosthenes and his successor Pamphaios , as can be deduced from two signed copies made in the workshop. This type of cup has a low but heavy cup base with a concave rim. This shape is apparently based on a bowl shape that was created by Chalcidian potters in southern Italy. The chalcidizing bowls are among other such acquisitions an example of the adoption of Lower Italian vase shapes in order to be able to serve the Lower Italian taste and to continue to dominate the market for these products in Greater Greece with Attic pottery. In terms of decoration, too, the Attic artists partly oriented themselves towards the preferences of the Lower Italian market. The eyes are often supplemented by noses and satyr tubes at the outer edge . With the exception of one specimen that may have been found in Athens , all bowls found so far come from southern Italy. They were made around 520 BC. Chr. Produced.
literature
- John Boardman : Black-Figure Vases from Athens. A handbook (= cultural history of the ancient world . Vol. 1). von Zabern, Mainz 1977, ISBN 3-8053-0233-9 , pp. 117f.