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SZILÁGYI, JÁNOS GYÖRGY: "La gigantesque horreur de l'ombre Herculéenne" Apulian Red-Figure Vases Decorated in Superposed Colours

and the Eastern part of Lucania bordering Apulia.

46 Apart from Metaponto, the presumable starting point, those local workshops which clearly came into existence at a later stage of production, will be found in this area.

47 As the above examples have manifested, this taste, fond of silhouettes and grotesques, found its most adequate forms of expression following Greek, mainly Attic models. The paradigmatic process of the fruitful meeting of two cultures resulted in this production, which furnished homes, shrines and tombs with thousands of vases for more than a century, making it pointless to separate Greek and local features rigidly.

48 For it would be misleading to label this pottery as either Greek or native: it is Apulian.

49 It is the people populating the area after the Punic Wars who will live to see a meeting similar to this with reverse consequences. JÁNOS GYÖRGY SZILÁGYI Translated by Mila Gázsity See the distribution map in De Juliis, op. cit. (n. 11), 187, which can be complemented with, at least, Ceglie Messapica (n. 35 above), and Oria (G. A. Maruggi, Pagine di scavo, Cat. Oria 1993, 27, in the material of tomb 13). Cf., e.g., B. M. Scarfi, MAL 45 (1961), 326-27 (Gioia del Colle); De Juliis, op. cit. (n. 11), 185. This is the most significant result of Robinson's first study (Robinson, op. cit. 1996 [n. 12], see in the first place, 263). In this context, it is worth referring to a remark of Porphyrio's commentary on Horace (ad Sat. 1.10.30): (Canusini) utraque lingua (sc. Osca et Graeca) usi sunt, sicut per omnem ilium tractum Italiae. As for the terminology, it is reasonable to agree with De Juliis in disregarding the fact that Metaponto and a number of sites closely related to it are situated in Lucania. - The above conclusions hold true for the Apulian Gnathia vases as well. The relationship with vases decorated in added red requires separate analysis, yet concerning the Red Swan Group, it might be worthwhile referring to a Gnathia kylix, that displays a bird-figure looking left in its medallion (Ruvo, Museo Nazionale Jatta 285, inv. Soprintendenza 36618; G. Jatta, Catalogo del Museo Jatta, 1869, reprint, Bari 1996, 128).