Comast bowl
The Komast bowl marks the beginning of the development of Attic drinking bowls .
Bowls were a takeover from Levantine art. Komast bowls were a further development from the bowls taken over from the Levant, which were especially common in Ionia and Corinth . As in the rest of the vase painting of the time, the Attic artists based themselves on the works from Corinth. The almost semicircular shape with the recessed lip and the low, one to two cm high feet is an Attic development. The inside of the bowl is black, only a small, clay-ground stripe below the lip has been left. The base and the outside of the handle are also black. One line adorns the lip, a second line separates the handle zone and the edge, both of which have been left with a clay background. The first specimens were quite large, but the bowls got smaller over the course of production.
The most important painters of the Komast bowls can be found in the so-called Komast group with the KX painter as the most important representative. It is named after the representations on the Komast bowls, the Komast . This form of representation is based closely on Etruscan vase painting.
literature
- Thomas Mannack : Greek vase painting. An introduction. Theiss, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-8062-1743-2 , p. 108f.
