Colonette Crater
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The Kolonettenkrater , also pole handle crater or Kolonnettenkrater , was a type of the Greek wine mixing vessel crater . It was the oldest of the four standard types and was made around 700 BC. Invented in Corinth .
The Kolonnettenkrater got its modern name from its columnar handles. Because of his origins in Corinth, he was called Korinthios in the rest of Greece . It was a modified form of older crater types; the forerunners can be traced back to at least the 8th century BC. Trace back to BC. Corinthian innovations were the arching of the shoulder and the protruding, angular rim of the vessel. In the early and middle Corinthian period (around 625 to 575 BC) the handle plates of the crater were decorated with heads or individual animals. In the early Corinthian period, the painters decorated the upper side of the edge with rays, in the Middle Corinthian period with flowers and in the middle and late Corinthian phase with a zigzag staircase pattern. The animal frieze typical of Corinth can usually be found under the main picture. The back was often decorated with lions and panthers, bulls, boars, goats and birds. With the exception of a few late Corinthian specimens, incised rosettes were almost always used as filling ornaments . The column crater was almost the only large vase shape in Corinth; other craters, hydria and amphorae were rarely produced. A modified variant, the Chalcidian crater , was produced in the late Corinthian period . The Colonettenkrater was adopted and developed in many regions of Greece and enjoyed great popularity for a long time. In Attica, the very bulbous Corinthian model was turned into a narrower variant that tapered towards the bottom. It was produced in southern Italy until the 4th century.
literature
- John Boardman : Early Greek Vase Painting. 11th - 6th Centuries BC. A Handbook (= World of Art ). Thames and Hudson, London 1998, ISBN 0-500-20309-1 , pp. 180f.
- Thomas Mannack : Greek vase painting. An introduction . Theiss, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-8062-1743-2 , p. 102.
- Wolfgang Schiering : The Greek clay pots. Shape, purpose and change of form (= Gebr.-Mann-Studio-series ). 2nd, significantly changed and expanded edition. Mann, Berlin 1983, ISBN 3-7861-1325-4 , pp. 54, 146f.
