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Magna Graecia
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Magna Graecia #16
Greek in Southern Italy
G160 Apulia Section
Krater with artist scene
technique of encaustic
/ Hercules (right) lion skin cape like hand: artist painted himself painting a scene of artist painting
ambles in from the right
Apotheosis of Herakles
Apulian Loutrophoros
obverse 前面
Tendril 卷须
naiskoi (shrine) is common on Apulian vases
/ a deity leaning on the column on the left: is this the “famous Aphrodite” sculpture that mentioned in another gallery stele relief
iconography of figure in naiskos originated from Greek sculpture
Although most Apulian vases are understood funerary, they could be first used in real life
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Ionia (East Greek)
Tend to be larger than Greek counterparts
Greater decoration and use of color
observance - an act performed for religious or ceremonial reasons
First settle in Campania 8th: Pithekoussai and Cumae
8th also Sicily: Naxos and Syracuse
6th extensive building in Magna Graecia: Paestum, Akragas, Syrscuse
modus vivendi
Late 8th: Greek settle Tarentum
Indigenous: Daunian, Peucetian, Messapian
askos: flask with spout and handle over top
Addition of a second spout on askos in late Daunian
Thymiateria (incense burner) is frequent in Daunian pottery from Canosa
25193 trozella
precursor of nestoris: Lucanian and Apulian two handled jar
65118 most characteristic Daunian bowl
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Plain Style in Apulian
/ is it window in the back?
Campania Vase:
Sicily immigrants at Capua and Cumae
Doesn’t like figured vase like Apulia but like figural form vases
Popular shape: taunt bail amphora
Popular iconography: local warrior with accoutrement like wide belt and tall feather （plume) / crest helmet, and tripartite breastplate
Wave pattern as ground line
accoutrement
911455 amphora
unclear meaning
/ profile portrait on the neck
/Southern Italian amphora: always three figures, middle seated
Apulian Vases:
Daunian and Peucetian
Greek influence with founding of Taras (Taranto) 700BCE
Direct Athenian influence: liberate from ground line in multiple register
Veggie and floral are kept on check on Athenian but became large and press luxuriantly on Apulian (they favor larger vases)
Major iconography: theatre tragic and comic
Southern Italian variety of farce: Phlyax
Black glaze: Canosa and Gnathia
Gnathian: term for Apulian pottery with polychrome decoration on black glazed background
5617164 situla (bucket)
/ dotted line representing each register or ground line
Nikai: personification of victory
appear in three figures around a column
Great Theater
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Cabiric Vase from Kabirion (our skirt of Thebes)
Lucanian Vase
Greek colony: Sybaris to Metapontum
Athens influence, established city Thurii 443
Strong Athenian influence
strigil
olive oil for skin care, use strigil as scraper on skin