Rim shell
Edge bowls (also lip cups , English: lip cup ) are a form of the ancient Greek Attic Kleinmeister bowls .
Edge bowls were made around the middle of the 6th century BC. Produced in Athens . They are similar to the Gordion shells , but with them the shell lip is less abruptly separated from the rest of the shell body. The base of the bowl is high and has wide base plates. Especially in the early specimens, the feet are hollow, conical and the foot walls have a uniform thickness.
This bowl shape was painted on the bowl lip. Usually in the center of the front and back there are one to three figures that were applied to a clay ground. Complete mythical scenes were therefore rarely depicted. It is not uncommon for the lip to be left completely undecorated. There are other decorations in the handle zone. There are almost always inscriptions between the handle palmettes and a painted stripe near the upper edge. The palmettes are rarely replaced by animals or human figures. The inscriptions can reproduce a motto or just show a meaningless sequence of letters, which suggests an ornamental function for the inscriptions. Inside the bowl there are often figurative round pictures, which were often framed by tongue patterns with white dots on the tips. Sometimes, instead of the figures, there are also plant ornaments on the lip.
It is unknown why rim (about 570-530 B.C. ) and ribbon shells (about 560-530 B.C. ) coexisted for so long. Perhaps both variants had their respective merits. So it was certainly more pleasant to drink from an undecorated black rim of a ribbon bowl, but a strong ridge below the lip of the rim bowl meant that the wine could not spill over so easily when drinking. The edge shells were more difficult to manufacture. The head shell is a special form of edge bowls .
Well-known artists of this type of bowl are Tleson , Sakonides , Hermogenes , Epitimos , Xenocles , the Xenocles Painter , the Taleides Painter , the Phrynos Painter and Phrynos .
literature
- John Boardman : Black-Figure Vases from Athens. A handbook (= cultural history of the ancient world . Vol. 1). von Zabern, Mainz 1977, ISBN 3-8053-0233-9 , pp. 65f.
