Workshop of Athens 894
The workshop of Athens 894 is an Attic - Late Geometric ceramic workshop that dates back to the last third of the 8th century BC. Chr. Dated.
The workshop of Athens 894 was the most important workshop in the tradition of the Dipylon workshop in phase SG II b of the late Geometric period, alongside the Philadelphia painter . She had specialized in tall, slender amphorae with a prosthesis on the neck and adorned with a procession of chariots on the belly. The workshop is also assigned more than ten shell shapes. Robert Manuel Cook was the first researcher to compile the core inventory of the workshop; Jean M. Davison , Eva TH Brann , John Nicolas Coldstream and Nikolaus Himmelmann expanded the series of attributions.
The bowls from the workshop show a comparatively large range of variation. The walls are mostly of medium, rarely small thickness. There are both very shallow and very deep bowls. The transition from the body to the edge is clearly visible without forming a step. The floor area is mostly flat. The handles are usually quite strong and start on the shell body below the furthest extent. The animal friezes in the tradition of the Dipylon workshop are characteristic of the painting technique. Horses, deer, billy goats, birds and lions are shown. Horses rarely appear as mounts, mostly as chariot animals. The animal friezes were joined by filling ornaments such as latticed or dotted rhombuses under the animal bellies, zigzag lines across the back, vertical angular rows or serpentine lines, scattered hourglasses and lightning-like lines between the front legs. The lions are also shown in a particularly characteristic form, the throats are wide open and the upper jaws bent open. The claws can be recognized by the paws and the tails are rolled up over the back. The human image content shows dance of women with dancers in plaid skirts, as well as warriors with dipylon shields .
The main representative and eponymous for the workshop is the painter of Athens 894 , another important representative is the Stathatou painter . The painter of Athens 894 and thus the group received their provisional names according to a vase of the inventory number 894 in the National Museum of Athens is kept.
literature
- Brigitte Borell : Attic-geometric shells. A late Geometric type of ceramic and its relationship to the Orient . von Zabern, Mainz 1978 ( Keramikforschungen , Vol. 2), ISBN 3-8053-0237-1 , pp. 44-47.
- Thomas Mannack : Greek vase painting. An introduction . Theiss, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-8062-1743-2 , pp. 77f.
