Gordion bowl

Gordion bowls are the earliest form of the Greek Attic Kleinmeister bowls .

The Gordion bowls not only include the earliest, but also the smallest examples of the Kleinmeisterschellen. The shell lip is covered with black and clearly delimited from the rest of the shell. The handle zone is decorated with a painted strip near its upper edge and often also near the lower edge. The foot is similar to that of the Siana bowls , but longer and has decorative stripes on the underside. Inside, also similar to the Siana bowls, there is a figurative round image that is framed by a tongue pattern. The similarity to the Siana bowls is no coincidence, they were the forerunners of the Kleinmeister bowls.

The Gordion bowls were named after a specimen found in the ancient city of Gordion , which was created by Klitias and Ergotimos . Their signatures can be found - as is customary for this type of bowl - in a straight line between the delicate palmettes . The heyday of the Gordion bowls was probably around 560 BC. Chr.

Well-known artists of this type of bowl are Sondros , Phrynos , Sokles and Archikles .

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 , p. 65.