Point band class
The dot-band class (English: Dot-Band Class , then also German Dot-band Class ) is a class of Attic - black-figure small neck amphoras that were made in the first quarter of the 5th century BC. Were manufactured. The class got its name from John D. Beazley . It is a class defined by the shape and the decorative elements , not a stylistic group .
The amphorae are characterized by characteristic decorative elements, a ribbon of dots below the pictures and three palmettes on each side of the neck. The amphorae of the class were painted by very different painters, such as the Edinburgh painter (8), the Michigan painter (2), painters of the Leagros group (2) and some painters not named by Beazley (18); In addition, there is a group that Beazley originally named Group of Brussels R 312 ( Group of Brussels R 312 ), but later attributed to the Michigan painter (4). Furthermore, Beazley counted the vases of the Bompas Group ( Bompas Group ) to the point-band class.
literature
- John D. Beazley : Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters . Clarendon Press, Oxford 1956, pp. 483-485. 700.
- John D. Beazley: Paralipomena . Clarendon Press, Oxford 1971, pp. 220-221.
- 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. 163.