Athens, Etruria, and the Many Lives of Greek Figured Pottery Publication of this volume has been made possible, in part, through the generous support and enduring vision of Warren G. Moon and by a grant from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, administered by the Archaeological Institute of America. Athens, Etruria, and the Many Lives of Greek Figured Pottery Sheramy D. Bundrick the university of wisconsin press The University of Wisconsin Press 1930 Monroe Street, 3rd Floor Madison, Wisconsin 53711-2059 uwpress.wisc.edu Gray’s Inn House, 127 Clerkenwell Road London ec1r 5db, United Kingdom eurospanbookstore.com Copyright © 2019 The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System All rights reserved. Except in the case of brief quotations embedded in critical articles and reviews, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, transmitted in any format or by any means—digital, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise—or conveyed via the Internet or a website without written permission of the University of Wisconsin Press. Rights inquiries should be directed to [email protected]. Printed in the United States of America This book may be available in a digital edition. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Bundrick, Sheramy D., author. Title: Athens, Etruria, and the many lives of Greek figured pottery / Sheramy D. Bundrick. Other titles: Wisconsin studies in classics. Description: Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2019] | Series: Wisconsin studies in classics | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: lccn 2018016666 | isbn 9780299321000 (cloth : alk. paper) Subjects: lcsh: Vases, Greek—Italy—Etruria. | Vases, Greek—Greece—Athens. | Pottery, Greek—Italy—Etruria. | Pottery, Greek—Greece—Athens. | Etruria—Antiquities. Classification: lcc nk4645 .b855 2019 | ddc 738.0938/5—dc23 lc record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018016666 All the thousands of vases that the Etruscans gathered so lovingly and laid by their dead, where are they? Many are still in existence. But they are everywhere except at Vulci. —D. H. Lawrence, Etruscan Places (1932) The public of Athenian vases . . . is generally assumed to be limited to the Athenians, and the usual account is that of vases produced in the workshops of the Kerameikos, put on display for the citizens frequenting the nearby Agora, and sold to some local individual for a special occasion, such as a symposium. What strikes me about this account is that it usually ends in the dining room of an Athenian house. — Clemente Marconi, “Images for a Warrior: On a Group of Athenian Vases and Their Public” (2004) Contents List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xiii List of Abbreviations xv Chapter 1 The Many Lives of Athenian Vases 3 Chapter 2 The Nature of the Athenian Vase Trade 20 Findspots and Distribution Data 25 Pottery Workshop Deposits in Athens 33 Trademarks, Batch Notations, and Price Inscriptions 37 Shipwrecks with Commercial Cargo 46 Conclusions 49 Chapter 3 Context, Consumption, and Attic Vases in Etruria 51 Liminality, Performativity, and Attic Vases in Etruscan Tombs 62 A Tale of Two Assemblages 73 Conclusions 90 Chapter 4 Athenian Eye Cups Abroad 93 Apotropaion vs. Symposion 95 Athenian Eye Cups at Etruscan Vulci 105 Conclusions 123 Chapter 5 The Mastery of Water 127 Herakles Meets the Merman 129 Fountainhouse Hydriai and the Etruscan Culto dell’Acqua 136 Conclusions 155 Chapter 6 Attic Vases as Etruscan Cineraria 161 Tarquinia 166 Caere 185 Vulci 189 Foiano della Chiana 191 Conclusions 202 Chapter 7 The Etruscanization of Attic Figured Pottery 207 Notes 223 References 281 Index 323 Illustrations Map Etruscan sites discussed in the text 2 Figures 1.1 Attic volute krater by Euphronios, from Arezzo 4 1.2 Attic calyx krater by Euphronios and Euxitheos, from Caere 8 1.3 Attic kylix by Euphronios as potter, from Caere, interior 15 1.4 Attic kylix by Euphronios as potter (exterior of fig. 1.3) 15 1.5 Attic phiale from Southern Sanctuary of Pyrgi, exterior 16 2.1 Attic amphora by Euthymides, from Vulci 21 2.2 Attic amphora by Euthymides (reverse of fig. 2.1) 21 2.3 Attic hydria by Phintias, from Vulci 23 2.4 Attic Nikosthenic amphora signed Nikosthenes epoiesen 28 2.5 Attic Tyrrhenian amphora by the Timiades Painter, Tomb XLIX, Vulci 29 2.6 Attic eye cup signed Nikosthenes epoiesen, from Vulci 30 2.7 Attic stamnos by the Michigan Painter/Perizoma Group 32 2.8 Attic bell krater by the Pothos Painter 37 2.9 Attic amphora by the Berlin Painter, from Vulci 43 2.10 Attic hydria by the Group of London E445, from Vulci 45 ix