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Early Paestan Pottery*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

A. Dale Trendall
A. Dale Trendall
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British School, Rome
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The main lines of the development of South Italian pottery from its beginnings shortly after the middle of the fifth century to the period about 380 when provincialism or local characteristics began to make themselves felt have already been laid down by the researches of Beazley, Moon, Watzinger and others, but a detailed study of the great bulk of South Italian pottery which falls after that date and its division into its several fabrics has yet to be made. Patroni blazed the trail, and Macchioro tried to map out the new territory, but his frontiers have so often been proved inaccurate or arbitrary that a new map is badly needed.

One of the most clearly defined of all the local fabrics is that attributed to Paestum. Walters was the first to recognise a style of Asteas, Patroni extended this to Paestum, and since then it has been generally accepted as rightly named. The evidence of recent finds in a necropolis at Spinazzo Sta. Venere near Paestum helps to confirm this attribution, which I am taking for granted here, though I hope to go more fully into the question later in a paper on Paestan pottery after Asteas, with which the new finds are mainly concerned.

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The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 55 , Issue 1 , 1935, pp. 35 - 55
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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1935

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20 E.g. all the signed vases of Asteas except the Phrixus krater, the Alcmena and Orestes kraters; neck amphoras: Copenhagen inv. 8377, Berlin F3025, Vienna 724, Boston inv. 99540, etc.

21 The stem of the scroll is upright, and there is one downward-pointing fan. In this stage it occurs once on a late bell-krater from St. Agata (Naples inv. 82642) not actually Paestan, but strongly influenced by that style.

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24 Alinari photo 23678; RM. 1925, p. 223, fig. 3; Millin-Reinach, ii, 7–8.

25 Jdl. 1886, p. 275; Patroni, fig. 107, 1. From the illustrations, for I was unable to track down the vase in Naples, I incline to doubt whether the vase is really Paestan.

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27 E.g. Naples 1773, 1788, 2585; Louvre K254.

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32 Millin-Reinach, ii, 17. The similarity between the Dionysus on this vase and that on the reverse of the Asteas Madrid krater is so striking that I feel sure the two vases are by the same hand.

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34 I am indebted to Sig. Cavallaro and Dr. P. Mingazzini for sending me photos of this vase.

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44 AZ. 1852, Pl. 44, 1. Schöne, Antichità del Museo Bocchi, Pl. 1.

45 Shortly to be published in the loth fascicule of Italia Antichissima, by Prof. N. Putorti.

46 I have recently heard of another such plate at Reggio (no. 45 in the Antiquarium, from Castelnuova St. Andrea) representing an old comic actor with both hands at shoulder height holding a wreath and a patera, but as I have not seen it myself, I cannot say whether it is Paestan or not.

47 Scheurleer Coll. 2491; Jdl. 1917, p. 52, fig. 24.

48 Palagi Coll. 910; Pellegrini, Cat. fig. 70. I am very grateful to Prof. Ducati for allowing me to publish the two oenochoai in Bologna.

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50 AZ- 1855, Pl. 83 = RV. i, 383, 4. By the same hand are three bell-kraters and a calyx krater in the Museo Arqueologico, Madrid, (Leroux, Cat. nos. 324, 326, 329 and 327, Plates 37–39); and another calyxkrater recently placed there from the Prado Collection (no. 116) with a silen sacrificing a goat in the presence of two maenads. Also a calyx-krater in the Louvre K19, one in the B.M. F275, and a bell-krater in Paris, Bib. Nat. 940. I regard this group of vases as connecting the later products of early South Italian (e.g. Naples 2411 or Brussels A1018) with the early vases of the developed Apulian style.

51 CVA. Lecce, IV Dr, Pl. 19, 4, Pl. 20, 4. Note the resemblance of the thyrsus, patera and drapery.

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54 For similarity of pose cp. especially the rev. of Louvre K710, B.M. F160 and F283, all figured by Moon. For the drapery comparisons may be made with almost all the vases of the later period of early South Italian, as listed by Watzinger, FR. iii, p. 349; the influence of the Meidias painter on it I have already pointed out.

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