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Hellenistic pottery : an introduction

Σύμμεικτα-Miscellanea

• Papuci-Wladyka, Ewdoksia

This article is the fruit of a lecture given at the Department of Archaeology and History of Art of the University of Athens in May 1996. The aim of this lecture was to present briefly to the students the current state of research and the main categories of Hellenistic pottery.Hellenistic Pottery never was the «beloved favourite» of students contrary, for example, to Attic Black and Red Figured pottery. It was usually treated as «ill-look- ing» and «late» and was neither published nor exhibited very often. However starting in the early eighties we can observe an increasing interest in the study of this pottery. A series of scientific meetings devoted especially to Hellenistic pottery have been organized in Greece between 1986 and 1994. The next Meeting, the fifth, will take place in Chania (Crete) in 1997 and because of the ever increasing number of publications concerning Hellenistic pottery, this conference will be accompanied by the publication of the Bibliography of Hellenistic Pottery for the years 1980-1996.Hellenistic pottery does not follow one straight line of development, neither in shapes nor in the decoration. Its character is rather eclectic. It is widespread geographically all over the Hellenistic world and the production centers are many. These factors complicate the study of Hellenistic pottery.The main categories of Hellenistic pottery were briefly presented:1. Black Glazed (or Black Gloss) pottery: Attic, Campanian and other centres.2. Red Gloss - Eastern Sigillata A (Hellenistic series).3. Gray Wares.4. Pottery with light decoration painted on black glaze: a/ Attic West Slope and pottery of West Slope type from other centres: Pergamon, Macedonia, Crete, Rhodes, b/ Gnathia.5. Pottery with dark paint on light ground: a/ Hadra clay-ground hydriae, b/ la- gynoi.6. Pottery with polychrome decoration usually on white ground: a/ Canosa, b/ Lipari, c/ Centuripe, d/ white-ground Hydriae of Alexandria and Rhodes (these are also called Hadra white-ground Hydriae).7. Pottery with relief decoration, mainly relief bowls (so-called megarian bowls), and appliqué decoration.8. Plastic Vessels - Magenta Ware.9. Unguentaria.10. Braziers (which are not exactly pottery, but are usually published with pottery).11. Plain wares, kitchen wares and transport amphoras.

• History and Archaeology

• Αρχαιολογία

αρχαία κεραμική, ελληνιστική εποχή

Αυτό το άρθρο είναι καρπός μιας διάλεξης που δόθηκε στο Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών το Μάιο 1996 και που είχε σκοπό να παρουσιάσει στους φοιτητές σε ποιό στάδιο βρίσκεται η έρευνα της ελληνιστικής κεραμικής, να επισημάνει τα προβλήματά της και να παρουσιάσει τις βασικές ομάδες των ελληνιστικών αγγείων. Τα προβλήματα που περιμένουν τη λύση τους είναι πολλά και η επισκόπηση αυτή δεν εξαντλεί βέβαια ένα τόσο πολύπλοκο θέμα