Kittos group

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The Kittos group is a group of Attic vase painters who lived around 370 to 360 BC. Chr. Panathenaic prize amphorae produced.

On the Beazley vases No. 2 to 4 the Archon Polyzelos (367/66 BC) is named as the commissioning officer, No. 1 shows the potter's signature of the potter Kittos instead of the official inscription , which is probably the sample for Obtaining the official order for the price amphorae of the Panathenaia . No. 5 is a somewhat smaller pseudo price amphora.

Works

  1. London, British Museum B604 , from Taucheira in Kyrenaica . Pankration .
  2. Brussels, Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire A 1703, from Benghazi in the Cyrenaica. Runner.
  3. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art 56.171.6 (formerly San Simeon, Hearst Castle ), from the Cyrenaica. Runner.
  4. London, British Museum B603, from Teucheira in Kyrenaica. Wrestler.
  5. London, British Museum B 612 , from Teucheira in Cyrenaica. Boxer.

literature

  • John D. Beazley : Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1956, pp. 413-414.
  • Martin Bentz : Panathenaic price amphoras. An Athenian type of vase and its function from the 6th to 4th centuries. Century BC Chr. (= Antique Art Supplement 18). Association of Friends of Ancient Art, Basel 1998, ISBN 3-909064-18-3 , pp. 29. 168–169.
  • Panos Valavanis : Bάκχιoς, Kίττoς και παναθηναϊκoί αμφoρείς. Σκέψεις για τη δoμή των αττικών κεραμικών εργαστηρίων τoυ 4oυ αι. π.! . In: John H. Oakley, Olga Palagia (Eds.): Athenian Potters and Painters. The conference proceedings. Oxbow, Oxford 1997, ISBN 1-900188-12-0 , pp. 85-95.