Kuban group

Prize amphoras of the Kuban Group, Hildesheim, Roman and Pelizaeus Museum

Prize amphora of the Kuban group, London, British Museum B 606

The Kuban Group (English Kuban Group ) is one with a provisional names designated group of Attic vase painter who at the end of 5th and the beginning of the 4th century BC. Chr. Panathenaic prize amphorae produced. These are probably the prize vases of the Panathenaic Mountains from 406, 402, 398 and 394 BC. The group is named after an amphora from the Kuban area .

The vessels are decorated with black figures in the tradition of the price amphora , at a time when only red-figure vases were actually produced. Stylistically, several vase painters can be separated, one of whom is identified with Aristophanes , a second comes from the circle of the Pronomos painter .

literature

• John D. Beazley : Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters . Clarendon Press, Oxford 1956, pp. 411-412.
• 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. 182.
• Norbert Eschbach : A price amphora in Gießen and reflections on the Kuban group . In: Yearbook of the German Archaeological Institute 107, 1992, pp. 33–58.
• 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. 156–163.

Web links

• The Kuban group in the British Museum database
• Prize amphora of the Kuban group in the British Museum