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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 September 2015
Among the simpler and cheaper types of pottery in common use in the fifth century B.C. and later, one of the most attractive is the black-glaze ware decorated with incised and stamped patterns. A certain quantity of this has been found in undisturbed single burials or in other contexts which provide external evidence for its dating and development, notably in Sicily and South Russia, at Rhitsona in Boeotia and more recently in the Agora at Athens. Further and still more reliable evidence is to be found in the series of vases, mainly cups, in which similar incised or stamped patterns are found combined on one and the same pot with red-figure painting. The use of incision and stamping in the interior of the cups instead of the normal painted medallion no doubt made for cheapness, and the red-figure work is never of a very high standard. Nevertheless, some of the fifth-century examples have sufficient merit to be looked at for their own sake, while the combination of the two styles gives a useful equation.
1 The most recent and the fullest publication of ware of this type is MissTalcott, Attic Blackglazed Stamped Ware, Hesperia, IV, 477 f.Google Scholar
2 For photographs (some of them supplied many years ago) and for permission to publish them I am much indebted to present or past directors of the following Museums—Athens, Basel, Boston, Bowdoin College, British Museum, Florence, Leningrad, Louvre, Naples, New York, and the Oesterreichisches Museum, Vienna. I have to thank Professor Van Buren for most valuable help in obtaining photographs in Italy. Miss Talcott has most kindly given me much information and has supplied the photographs for Fig. 17 and Pl. XIII, 4. I am particularly indebted to Signor Michele Jatta for most kindly giving me facilities for working in his collection at Ruvo and for allowing me to publish photographs of his vases. Above all, I should like to record my warm thanks to Professor Beazley for his most generous help: in particular I owe entirely to him my knowledge of nos. 6 and 10.
3 Beazley, AV 328, no. 32Google Scholar.
4 Id. 320, no. 14.
5 AM 1928, 11, 12Google Scholar.
5a Unfortunately Fig. 17 does not clearly shew the centre of the rosette. The petals converge on a central point much as those of Hesperia IV, 483Google Scholar, Fig. 6, no. 98.
6 Described by Jatta, Catalogo p. 629Google Scholar, as a ball with which the youth on the right is playing.
7 Professor Beazley confirms this. He tells me that it is by the same hand as cups in the Vatican and in New York, nos. 8 and 9, AV 360.
8 Hesperia IV, 484Google Scholar.
9 Recently found and not yet published.
10 Hesperia IV, 489, fig. 11Google Scholar.
11 A possible exception may be the Louvre cup, no. 22 above, but I am inclined to think it need not be later than the turn of the century.
12 Jacopi, , Clara Rhodos, III, 267Google Scholar has a grave (Sep. CCXLIX) furnished with two black kylikes with B incised patterns, one of which has in the centre a ‘Stella a impressione,’ but only the outside of the cup is figured (fig. 255). It is unlikely that the star is one of our type.
13 Orsi, , MonAnt XIV, 952Google Scholar.
14 Since writing this I have heard from Professor Beazley of a third example in Rhodes, no. 10777 from Ialysos. Here also the pattern is richer than ours, having three zones of ivy wreaths, the leaves veined.
15 Hesperia IV, 487Google Scholar.
16 Hesperia IV, 491Google Scholar.
