Czére Andrea szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei (Budapest, 2007)

ANDRÁS MÁRTON AND GYÖRGY NEMES: Corinthian White-Ground Lekythoi

does not allow us to assign it to any particular group with any certainty, it could have been made around 440-425 BC. The type was certainly not made after 425 BC.'

6 Red-figure squat lekythoi (by the Hermes Painter?) also from this grave do not help with a more accurate dating due to the uncertainty of the chronology of Corinthian red-figure pottery production.

37 The Hermes Painter worked in the late fifth century BC and the beginning of the fourth.

38 A small bowl with a horizontally projecting rim from grave 409 was previously dated to 450-425 BC.

39 However, based on the material from the Athenian Agora, the production of this group started only after 425 BC, and lasted until the mid-third century BC.

40 Of the two Attic squat-lekythoi found in grave 422, the one with a palmette can be dated to 410-400 BC. The vase with a water bird belongs to a group made between 425 and 375 BC.

41 The Attic red-figure lekythos-aryballos from grave 426 was produced at the end of the fifth century BC.

42 Considering the above, we can say that production of group iii lasted until 400/375 BC. EVIDENCE FOR THE DATING OF THE CHIMNEY LEKYTHOI White-ground decoration was also used in Corinth on the so-called chimney lekythoi. For this group, only a single find-context is documented. One such lekythos was found in North Cemetery grave 326. Among the grave goods found there were a high-stemmed Acrocup made between 475-450 BC, and a Corinthian type skyphos which dates to between 460-450 BC.

43 A red-ground lekythos with upright palmettes (from the Beldam Workshop) could have been painted between 470/465-450 BC.

44 Based on the above and the proposed date for the activity of the Beldam Painter in Corinth, the Corinthian white-ground chimney lekythoi were produced between 460-450 BC.

45 Our overview' of the simultaneous occurrence of different groups of Corinthian whiteground lekythoi in the grave assemblages strengthens the supposed chronology of the three groups. It also makes possible certain conclusions. Finds of vases from the different groups in the same closed contexts show that their hypothetical relative chronological order (i-ii-iii) is correct. Pieces from group i and ii were found together in North Cemetery grave 367; those from group ii and iii in grave 416.

46 Vases of type i and iii never occur together, which suggests that the production of group i had ceased by the time group iii vases began. Judging by artefacts from graves, the production of group ii vases started early, not much later than group i, and lasted after the production of group i had stopped. The end of the production cannot be defined more precisely at the moment. The finds from the North Cemetery graves 426 and 422 are not conclusive in this regard.