Little lions class

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Lekythos of the Little Lion Class from the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1972.118.141)

The Little Lion Class (English: Little Lion Class , later also German Little Lion Class ) is a class of Attic - black-figure lekyths that were built in the first quarter of the 5th century BC. Was produced.

The small lekyths are characterized by a tapering body, which is clearly curved inwards above the foot. The class was named after the depiction of small lions on the shoulders of lekyths, but other animals such as dogs and rabbits were also depicted.

The painters of the vases of the Little Lion class were the successors of the Edinburgh painter . The main representative of the class is the Sappho painter , other pieces can be assigned to the Diosphos painter , and there are also other stylistically related, unnamed painters.

literature

  • Emilie Haspels : Attic black-figured lekythoi (= École française d'Athènes. Travaux et Mémoires. Volume 4). Boccard, Paris 1936, pp. 98-100. 116-120. 230-231.
  • John D. Beazley : Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1956, pp. 512-514.
  • John D. Beazley: Paralipomena . Clarendon Press, Oxford 1971, pp. 251-254.
  • John Boardman : Black-Figure Vases from Athens. A handbook (= cultural history of the ancient world . Vol. 1). Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1977, ISBN 3-8053-0233-9 , p. 161.