Top band class

As a top band class (English top-band class ) is a class of Attic - black- eye shells v the last quarter of the 6th century. BC (around 510 BC).

The class owes its name to the wide black band at the top, which many of its representatives show, and is reminiscent of the bowls of the class of the top band Stemlesses . From an artistic point of view, however, the bowls are of little significance. Some can be attributed to the Vatican painter G 69 .

literature

• 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.
• Jeanne Jordan: Attic black-figured eye-cups . Dissertation New York University 1988, pp. 234-243.