Daunian ceramics
The Daunian ceramics (also Daunisch Subgeometrische ceramic or Subgeoemtrisch-Daunian ceramic is) a local ceramic genus of Daunians in today's southern Italian provinces of Bari and Foggia . It is seen by the overwhelming opinion as independent and not as a late offshoot of Greek geometric ceramics .
Daunian vases were mainly produced in the regional production centers Ordona and Canosa di Puglia . The vessels are divided into North and South Daunian specimens and were made around 700 BC. Chr. Produced. Since this early phase, the vessels have been painted with geometric motifs, which can be seen independently of the Greek motifs. The vessels are hand-molded. The decor is applied to them with red, brown or black earth colors. These can be diamonds, triangles, circles, crosses, squares, arcs, swastikas and other shapes. The development of vase shapes was initially independent of Greek ceramics. Typical are the foot crater , the askos , funnel-shaped vessels and bowls with loop handles . Hand-shaped, animal-shaped or anthropomorphic protomes are noticeably often attached to the walls and handles of the vessels or reproduced in drawings.
During the 5th century BC The Greeks adopted the turntable in the 2nd century BC, followed by the form of decoration in the following century. From around 330 BC. Chr. Greek vessel forms such as bell craters , colonette craters , kantharos and kalathos gradually displace the original forms. In the Young Canosiner stage (350–250 BC) the shape of the decoration also changed. Now ivy and palmette friezes , " running dogs " and figurative representations are predominant. In the final phase, double vessels, colonic craters, amphora , askos and thymiaterion dominate .
literature
- Rolf Hurschmann : Daunian vases. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 3, Metzler, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-476-01473-8 , column 335 f.
