Messapian pottery
The Messapian ceramics is a ceramic type, the v of the mid-7th century to the 3rd century. On the Italian peninsula Salento (also called Messapia in antiquity ).
Messapic vases were initially decorated with geometric patterns such as circles, squares, diamonds, horizontal line patterns, swastics and other similar motifs. The meander was added later due to Greek influence . Olla , Kanne and Trozella were mainly used as image carriers . From around the beginning of the 5th century, figurative ornamentation was added again under Greek influence through imports of Attic ceramics . In addition, new elements such as ivy tendrils and other leaf motifs have been added to the repertoire. Until then, only parts of the vases had been decorated, now the entire surface of the vases was used. In the 4th century, artists returned to geometric ornamentation, which, however, was now almost entirely under Greek influence. Floral ornaments were mainly adopted from Attic and Lower Italian vase painting . The Gnathia vases were particularly influential here. New vase shapes such as kalathos , pyxis , krater and stamnos also became popular, but the trozella remained until the end of the Messapic vases in the first third of the 3rd century BC. The leading ceramic form.
literature
- Rolf Hurschmann : Messapic vases. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 8, Metzler, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-476-01478-9 , column 51 f.
