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

The durability of clay has brought forth an immense abundance of Hellenic pottery, a craft mastered by Athenian dodgeists. Archeologists have lay down hundreds of varieties in creation, shape, function, behavior, and artwork in Archaic vases. The museum has been blessed with one of these valuable artifacts it is the duty of this establishment to accumulate as much data as possible surrounding the vase. In first identifying technique, dimensions, and tally, as well as describing shape, ornament, and figural scenery, one may then begin to analyze the vase. This serves the everyday purpose of understanding where the artifact stands in Greek culture and history. finished the examination and research of figural scenes, it is then possible to compare these to former(a) scenes and styles of the same and other painters. Finally, one can then hypothesize where, why, and how this fragment was used. The Athenian vase can be identified as a red-figure typewrite B Kylix. The height of the vase vacillates between 12.1 and 12.3 centimeters, and the diam of the foot is roughly 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 personify of the vase are glued back together. The stinkpot of the foot is decorated with subsidiary ornamentation, but the design cannot be expansive due to the condition of the cylix. A reserved save band runs rough 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 lower body meets the stem. The body of the kylix joins into the stem without an abrupt junction, and the foot is convex in profile. Along the exterior, two handles curve upwards along opposite sides of the kylix. two the upper surface and the inside of the handles are reserved, with the area of the body after part them. The single figural scene on the front body of the kylix roughly depicts a battle between centaurs and human characters. It also includes sentient being figures. Starting from the left, there is a bearded and mustached male centaur with long, pointed ears. preceding(prenominal) the waist, his head and bare torso are human below the waist, his buttocks, legs, and hooves correspond 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 examine 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 archetype Greek concept of hero depicts Heracles as impassive and undaunted in this kylix, Euripides suggests that the society also honored his grounded qualities like love, emotion, and sympathy. These conjectures are an important increase to current knowledge of ancient Greece as archeologists move t owards further provoke discoveries. Alan H. Griffiths, Centaurs, Simon Hornblower and Antony Spawforth, 2003, The Oxford authoritative Dictionary (Oxford Oxford University Press), 309J.D. Beazley, 1984, Attic Red Figure Vase Painters, Vol. 2 (New York peon 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. 170J. pedlar and T. Mannack, 2002, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum (Oxford Oxford University Press), 925, ill. 19