School bowl
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As a school bowl one will Attic - red-figured drinking cup referred to around the year 480 for sale. And is attributed to the vase painter Duris . Because of the rare motif depicting school scenes, the vase is known beyond the specialist community.
The bowl was acquired for the Berlin Collection of Antiquities in 1872 , where it is now kept under the inventory number F 2285 . It is 11.5 cm high and measures 28.5 cm in diameter.
description
With the exception of one student, all of them stand in front of their teachers, who are mostly bearded, who are sitting on stools. On one side, a teacher playing the lyre and his pupil, who is also playing the lyre, sit across from each other. In the center follows a teacher who is unrolling a scroll , and in front of him is a student practicing reading or reciting verses. On the far right, a staff in hand, sits a paidagogós . This is not a teacher, as the name suggests, but a kind of supervisor for children. On the other outside is a pair of awesome young, beardless teacher playing, his pupil standing in front of him. The central image on this page is another beardless young teacher holding a wax tablet in one hand and using a stylus to write with the other . The student standing in front of him is obviously learning to write. On the right there is another paidagogós seated to the right , who turns to the reading scene. School utensils such as musical instruments, but also drinking bowls and a bag with astragals hang on the walls . The inside picture shows a young athlete putting on his sandal. Both images represent a related educational program.
According to the Greek conception of the time, young men should be educated both mentally and physically. Scenes that show in this way the daily life, are relatively rare on Attic vases, other familiar scenes can be found approximately at the Berlin Foundry Cup or the name vase of the Clinic Painter . The painter Duris shows such school scenes several times, which probably speaks for a certain status thinking. Schools in Athens at that time were not state-owned, but only a private educational institution that had to be financed privately and thus required a certain material status.
literature
- John D. Beazley : Attic Red-figure Vase-painters . Oxford 1963², pp. 431-432, No. 48.
- John D. Beazley: Paralipomena. Additions to Attic black-figure vase-painters and to Attic red-figure vase-painters . Oxford 1971, p. 374.
- Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Germany , Berlin 2 (1968), plate 77.
- Annika Backe-Dahmen : Education for the privileged , In: Annika Backe-Dahmen, Ursula Kästner , Agnes Schwarzmaier : Of gods and people. Pictures on Greek vases , Wasmuth and Scala, Berlin and Tübingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8030-3331-4 , pp. 60–61, p. 125 (literature).
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Coordinates: 52 ° 31 '10 " N , 13 ° 23' 54" E