West slope ceramics
The modern term western slope ceramics is used to describe a genus of Greek fine ceramics from the late Classical and Hellenistic periods.
The western slope pottery was particularly widespread in the eastern Mediterranean. The name was coined in 1901 by Carl Watzinger . It was named after ceramic finds on the western slope of the Acropolis of Athens . This is a genus of black varnish ceramics . In addition, this type of ceramic was decorated with white, yellow and pink clay slip, incisions, vertical grooves and wheel stamp patterns. The western slope ceramics originated in the 4th century BC. From a type of ceramic with applied yellowish-orange plastic ornaments that imitated gilding.
The western slope ceramics from Athens are particularly well known. However, several other production centers can be identified. Pergamon in particular should be mentioned as the center. Since Athens no longer dominated the ceramics market in the Mediterranean region at that time, it cannot be assumed that this is a form dominated by Attic products, but that a general trend in ceramics production was merely taken up and supported in Athens. The most common vessel shapes were the pyxis , the krater , the hydria , the amphora , the pelike , the jug, the krateriskos , the kantharos , the goblet , the bowl and the lebes . There have been similar developments in the western Mediterranean. The polychrome Gnathia genus is closely related. Western slope ceramics existed in several stages of development up to the second half of the 2nd century BC. Chr.
literature
- Roald F. Docter: West slope ceramics. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 11, Metzler, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-476-01481-9 , column 487 f.
