Greek Vases in The J. Paul Getty Museum

259 Pages·1985·28.51 MB·English

Occasional Papers on Antiquities, 3
Greek Vises
In The J Paul Getty Museum
THE J. PAUL GETTY MUSEUM MALIBU, CALIFORNIA
VOLUME 2/1985
GREEK VASES 2/1985
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J. Paul Getty Museum.
Greek vases in the J. Paul Getty Museum.
(Occasional papers on antiquities; v. 1, )
English and German.
Includes bibliographies.
1. Vases, Greek—Addresses, essays, lectures.
2. Vase-painting, Greek—Themes, motives—Addresses,
essays, lectures. 3. Vase, Etruscan—Addresses, essays,
lectures. 4. Vase-painting, Etruscan—Themes, motives-
Addresses, essays, lectures. 5. Vases—California—
Malibu—Addresses, essays, lectures. 6. J. Paul Getty
Museum—Addresses, essays, lectures. I. Title.
II. Series: Occasional papers on antiquities; v. 1,
etc.
NK4623.M37GJa7 1983 738.3'82'0938074019493 82-49024
ISSN 8756-047X
ISBN 0-89236-070-4
THEODORICO DE BOTMARE
MUSEI GETTIANI AMICO
XIII LUSTRIS PERACTIS
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Contents
Mycenaean Vases in the J. Paul Getty Museum 1
Sinclair Hood
Mass Production and the Competitive Edge
in Corinthian Pottery 17
J. L. Benson
Giants at the Getty 21
Mary B. Moore
Some New and Little-Known Vases by the
Rycroft and Priam Painters 41
Warren G. Moon
New Fragments of an Early Cup by Douris 71
Diana Buitrón
A Fragmentary Hydria by the Berlin Painter 75
Mark Kotansky, Karen Manchester, Jirí Frel
A New Meidian Kylix 79
Marion True
A Parthenonian Centaur 89
Katherine A. Schwab
A Representation of the Birds of Aristophanes 95
J. R. Green
Parisurteil der Zeit Alexanders des Grossen 119
Karl Schefold
A Bell Krater by the Branicki Painter 127
Mark Jentoft-Nilsen
An Apulian Loutrophoros Representing
the Tantalidae 129
A. D. Trendall
A New Etruscan Vase Painter at Malibu 145
Jifi Frel
A Faliscan Red-figure Bell Krater 159
Mario A. Del Chiaro
Polychrome Vases and Terracottas from
Southern Italy in the J. Paul Getty Museum 171
Frederike van der Wielen-van Ommeren
Herakles und Theseus auf Vasen in Malibu 183
Frank Brommer
Methodology in Vase-Profile Analysis 229
E. Anne Mackay
Beazley and the Connoisseurship of Greek Vases 237
D. C. Kurtz
Mycenaean Vases in the J. Paul Getty Museum
Sinclair Hood
The thirteen Mycenaean vases which belong to the This does not mean that the vases of this group could not
Getty Museum form an interesting collection. They are all have come from the same tomb, since many Mycenae­
said to have been acquired from two different sources, an chamber tombs are known to have been used for
Nos. 1-11 forming one group and Nos. 12 and 13 another. burials over an extended period of time. Over half of the
The two vases of this second group are alleged to have eleven vases of the first group, six in all (Nos. 2, 5, 8-11),
come from a different part of Greece than those of the appear to be of Late Helladic III A 1. The probable date for
first, and the clay of No. 13 in particular looks sufficiently two of the three square-sided alabastra (Nos. 6 and 7) is
unlike the clay of the vases of the first group as to be in Late Helladic III A 2-B, and for the jug (No. 1) it is Late
harmony with the idea of a separate place of manufacture. Helladic III B 1. Two of the three squat alabastra (Nos. 3
The relatively complete condition of all the vases sug­ and 4) seem to be the latest vases in the group and to date
gests that they were found in tombs. This is in any case from early in Late Helladic III C. The two vases of the sec­
highly probable, and the character of the vases themselves ond group (Nos. 12 and 13) are best assigned to Late
supports this view: all of them are closed vessels, jugs or Helladic III A 2.
jars of one kind or another, and they are mostly of types Without an analysis of the clay from which they are
standard in Mycenaean tombs on the Greek mainland. made, it is only possible to guess where the vases are likely
The vases of the first group consist of a narrow-necked jug to have been found. The appearance of the vases of the
(No. 1), three squat alabastra (Nos. 2-4), three squat jars first group, however, is not inconsistent with a source of
with angular profiles (square-sided alabastra) of a type manufacture in the Argolid, and the types can mostly, it
related to the squat alabastron (Nos. 5-7), three small seems, be paralleled from sites there. But in many other
handleless jars (Nos. 8-10), and the unusual if not unique areas, such as Attica, Boeotia, and Achaia, Mycenaean
handleless jar (No. 11), which may have been a small drum tombs are known to have been discovered in the past; and
related to a type of ritual vase that is also found in tombs. the vases of both groups might have come from one of
The two vases of the second group are a piriform jar (No. these or from elsewhere. Mrs. Susan Sherratt has sug­
13) and a stirrup vase (No. 12). There are no open bowls or gested to me that the Late Helladic III C squat alabastra,
drinking vessels of any kind among the vases of either and especially the shape of No. 3, may point to Achaia as
group. the area from which the first group of vases came.
All the vases seem to be assignable to Late Helladic III;
none of them need be dated in Late Helladic HI. The CATALOGUE
vases of the first group (Nos. 1-11) cover a wide range in 1. Narrow-necked jug with handle attached below rim
probable date within Late Helladic III, from the earliest (figs. 1-2).
phase of it, Late Helladic III A 1, to Late Helladic III C. Beveled rim; torus base. Complete and unbroken, except
I am very grateful to the J. Paul Getty Museum for inviting me to be a Aegean Pottery (London, 1925)
Visiting Scholar during the winter of 1981-82 and to Dr. Jiri Frel FLMV A. Furtwângler and G. Loeschcke, Mykenische
for bringing these vases to my attention and asking me to study and Vasen (Berlin, 1886)
publish them. Dr. Frel and Miss Marit Jentoft-Nilsen kindly arranged for Mycenae ChT A.J.B. Wace, Chamber Tombs at Mycenae (Archaeo-
the excellent photos of the vases to be taken by the museum's Photo­ logia 82) (Oxford, 1932)
graphic Department. The drawings were made by Martha Breen MP A. Furumark, The Mycenaean Pottery, Analysis and
Bredemeyer. I am much obliged to Mrs. Susan Sherratt for suggestions Classification (Stockholm, 1941)
about the interesting Late Helladic III C squat alabastra (Nos. 3 and 4). Papadopouios 1979 T.J. Papadopoulos, Mycenaean Achaea {Studies in
Mediterranean Archaeology 55) (Gôteborg, 1979)
Abbreviations other than those in normal use in the Journal: Perati S.E. Iakovidis, nepaifj (Athens, 1970)
Asine O. Frôdin and A.W. Persson, Asine, Results of the Prosymna C.W. Blegen, Prosymna (Cambridge, 1937)
Swedish Excavations 1922-1930 (Stockholm, 1938) Tiryns V, VI, VIII U. Jantzen, Tiryns V (1971), VI (1973), VIII (1975)
BMA E.J. Forsdyke, Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan (Mainz am Rhein: Philipp von Zabern)
Vases in the British Museum I, Part 1, Prehistoric
2 Hood
Figure 1. No. 1. Narrow-necked jug. Malibu, The J. Paul Getty Museum 8LAE.61.10.
Mycenaean Vases 3
Figure 2. No. 1 from above.