Description, Function, Attribution, and Analysis of a Red-figure Type B

The durability of clay has brought forth an immense copiousness of Greek pottery, a craft mastered by Athenian artists. Archeologists set out found hundreds of varieties in creation, shape, function, style, and artwork in Archaic vases. The museum has been blessed with superstar of these priceless artifacts it is the duty of this establishment to accumulate as much info as possible surrounding the vase. In first identifying technique, dimensions, and condition, as salubrious as describing shape, ornament, and figural scenery, one may then begin to dissect the vase. This serves the general purpose of understanding where the artifact stands in Greek farming and history. Through the examination and research of figural scenes, it is then possible to study these to other scenes and styles of the same and other painters. Finally, one mass then opine where, why, and how this piece was used. The Athenian vase can be identified as a red-figure Type B Kylix. The height of the vase v acillates between 12.1 and 12.3 centimeters, and the diameter of the foot is just about 12.5 centimeters. Whereas the diameter of the mouth varies between 33.1 and 33.5 centimeters, the diameter with handles is close to 41.5 centimeters. The vase is completely restored, a condition in which pieces on the personate of the vase are glued rearward together. The bottom of the foot is decorated with subsidiary ornamentation, but the design cannot be distinguished due to the condition of the kylix. A reserved save muckle runs around the step of the foot. Beneath the artwork is subsidiary ornamentation in the style of circumscribed and horizontal palmettes. A reserved line lies where the press down automobile trunk meets the stem. The body of the kylix joins into the stem without an abrupt junction, and the foot is lentiform in profile. Along the exterior, two handles curve upwards along antagonist sides of the kylix. Both the upper surface and the inside of the handles are reserve d, with the area of the body rotter them. The single figural scene on the front body of the kylix roughly depicts a battle between centaurs and human characters. It as well as includes animal figures. Starting from the left, there is a bearded and mustached manlike centaur with long, pointed ears. Above the waist, his head and bare torso are human infra the waist, his buttocks, legs, and hooves resemble the body of a horse. He clenches a spear from behind in his left h... ...comparing the kylix with those of an earlier and later date, one can see that the Greeks were an extremely progressive culture that could make leaps and bounds in art in only a matter of two decades. though the ideal Greek concept of hero depicts Heracles as impassive and unshaken in this kylix, Euripides suggests that the society also honored his grounded qualities like love, emotion, and sympathy. These conjectures are an significant addition to current knowledge of ancient Greece as archeologists move towards foster exciting discoveries. Alan H. Griffiths, Centaurs, Simon Hornblower and Antony Spawforth, 2003, The Oxford Classical Dictionary (Oxford Oxford University Press), 309J.D. Beazley, 1984, Attic Red Figure Vase Painters, Vol. 2 (New York Hacker Art Books), 124-127A.T. Clark, 2002, Understanding Greek Vases (Los Angeles J Paul Getty Museum), 53M.G. Kanowski, 1984, Containers of Classical Greece (New York University of Queensland Press), 63-67J. Boardman, 1975, Athenian Red Figure Vases, The Archaic Period (London Thames and Hudson), 121, ill. one hundred seventyJ. Falconer and T. Mannack, 2002, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum (Oxford Oxford University Press), 925, ill. 19