Czére Andrea szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei (Budapest, 2007)
ANDRÁS MÁRTON AND GYÖRGY NEMES: Corinthian White-Ground Lekythoi
NOTHN 1 Judging by the colour of the clays, the shape of the vases and the technical details (the slip covering the lighter clay, the white slip running up to the neck) all three vases are obviously Corinthian. 1 Inv. no. 50.860. Unprovenanced. According to the notes of Béla Gerster, he acquired the vase in Attica. Height: 21.6 cm. Diameter of mouth: 4.0 cm. Diameter oi foot: 4.4 cm. Colour of clay: greenish-grey, typically Corinthian [5Y 7/3-7/4]. Slip: brownish-black-black [7.5YR 3/2—2.5/1]. The foot was broken off and glued back, chips are missing from the mouth, the slip and the paint are extremely worn. ; II. Palmer, "The Classical and Roman Periods", in C. W. Biegen, H. Palmer, and R. S. Young, The North Cemetery, Corinth XIII, Princeton, New Jersey 1964, 65-313; A. Steiner, "Pottery and Cult in Corinth: Oil and Water at the Sacred Spring", Hesperia 61 (1992), 385-408, 396-97, MP 98, fig. 6; S.J. Schwarz, Greek Vases in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution Washington D.C. Roma 1996, 41, no. 41, pi. 52.41; J. Gaunt, T. Mannach, and R. L. Wilkins, "Harrow School", Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Great Britain 21, Oxford 2005, 40, pi. 45.6. 4 Warriors were depicted with or without a helmet, but their shields were vertical at all times. For example: Ch. W. Clairmont, Classical Attic Tombstones. Kilchberg 1993, vol V, 134-35, no. 4.650, fig. 4.650; J. 11. Oakley, The Achilles Painter, Mainz 1997, 65-69, psi. 4.B, 32. B, 55.A-B, 71.B, 81.B, 114.B, 135.B, 141.B. An exception is a white-ground lekythos by Douris on which we see a hoplite arming himself, where he holds his helmet in his right hand and a shield in his outstretched left arm: D. Buitron-Olivier, "Douris", Kerameus 9, Mainz 1995, 18, pi. 29. A transition between depictions of holding the shield in scenes of peace and during battles can be seen on the Munich 2335 Painter's lekythos with the figure of a running warrior: F. Feiten, "Weissgrundige Lekvthen aus dem Athener Kerameikos", Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Athenische Abteilung 91 (1976), 77-113, 94, Nr. 28, Taf. 29.2. 5 A. von Salis, "Die Gigantomachie am Schilde der Athena Parthenos", Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts 55 (1940), 90-161, 104-5, Abb. 10-11; Oakley 1997 (n. 4), PI. 28. A, 34.A, 35.A-B. 6 K. Liampi, Der makedonische Schieid, Bonn 1988, 35-36, Anm. 144-47; Oakley 1997 (n. 4), pl. 14.B. On Greek shield ornaments: G. II. Chase, The Shield Devices of the Greeks in Art and Literature, Cambridge, Mass. 1902, repr.; A. Vaerst, Griechische Schildzeichen vom 8. bis zum ausgehenden 6.Jh, Salzburg 1980. For instance, on the lekythoi of the Reed Painter: D. C. Kurtz, Athenian White Lekythoi, Oxford 1975, pi. 47.2; Feiten 1976, 108-09, Nr. 57, Taf. 38.1-2. Similar composition on a lekythos of the Sabouroff Painter, J. D. Beazley, "Attic White Lekythoi", in D. C. Kurtz ed., Greek Vases. Lectures by J. D. Beazley, Oxford 1989, 33, pi. 19.1.
