Stamnos
A stamnos (plural stamnoi ) was a bulbous, amphora- like storage vessel in ancient Greece. Stamnoi had a short neck and two horizontal handles on the sides of the vessel body. The vessel for storing wine , oil and other liquids was probably developed in Archaic times in Laconia or Etruria . A lid for the vessel was typical. The vessel known today as the pelike was also inscribed with Stamnos on Greek inscriptions , but the assignment described has now prevailed in archeology . In Athens, the stamnos was around 530 BC. Introduced and almost exclusively produced for export to Etruria. Today almost 400 stamnoi are preserved. The production took place almost entirely in one piece, only the foot and sometimes the neck and lip were made separately and then attached.
The stamnos is shown on red-figure vase paintings as an important vessel during Dionysian women's festivals. This is where the name Lenaen vases comes from . A use in Attic cults is questionable not least because of the non-Attic origin.
In Etruria from the 6th to the 4th century BC Bronze stamnoi made; a proof of production for the Hellenistic Mediterranean area is not proven. The function of the vessel was also the storage of liquids, but it was also used in the Etruscan region as a burial object . The stamnoi were also imported into the early Celtic region and can be documented as grave goods in so-called princely graves . The production of the stamnoi can be divided into different phases due to the different characteristics of attachments and border decorations and also chronologically arranged through the context of the graves' find. Vulci and Todi are believed to be the main production sites .
literature
- Ingeborg Scheibler : Stamnos. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 11, Metzler, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-476-01481-9 , column 916 f.
- Brian B. Shefton : The Stamnos. In: Wolfgang Kimmig : The Kleinaspergle. Studies on a princely grave mound of the early La Tène period near Stuttgart , Stuttgart 1988, pp. 104–152.
