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28 Consumers and Vases in Early South Italian Vase-Painting

  • Mark Stansbury-O’Donnell
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Technology, Crafting and Artisanal Networks in the Greek and Roman World
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Abstract

For the first generation of red-figured pottery workshops in Lucania and Apulia, we have a case of painters establishing a market for their wares both in the Greek cities of the Ionian Sea and in the Italic communities of Lucania and Apulia. A question that can be addressed is whether there is a strong association of certain shapes or subjects with specific regions, or whether the market for the red-figured wares were generalized across southern Italy. Using a database based on the lists of Trendall and supplemented with published and displayed works post-Trendall, the data on frequency of shapes, subjects, and regional findspots for the Pisticci-Amykos Group and the groups associated with the Sisyphus Painter and the Painter of the Birth of Dionysos were subjected to statistical tests, including the chi-square test and Cramer’s V. The results suggest that there are cases of specific associations between variables; for example, the bell-krater being strongly associated with Lucania outside of the Greek cities. This paper seeks to demonstrate how statistical testing can point to situations where differing consumer preferences were met by the first generation of Lucanian and Apulian workshops.

Abstract

For the first generation of red-figured pottery workshops in Lucania and Apulia, we have a case of painters establishing a market for their wares both in the Greek cities of the Ionian Sea and in the Italic communities of Lucania and Apulia. A question that can be addressed is whether there is a strong association of certain shapes or subjects with specific regions, or whether the market for the red-figured wares were generalized across southern Italy. Using a database based on the lists of Trendall and supplemented with published and displayed works post-Trendall, the data on frequency of shapes, subjects, and regional findspots for the Pisticci-Amykos Group and the groups associated with the Sisyphus Painter and the Painter of the Birth of Dionysos were subjected to statistical tests, including the chi-square test and Cramer’s V. The results suggest that there are cases of specific associations between variables; for example, the bell-krater being strongly associated with Lucania outside of the Greek cities. This paper seeks to demonstrate how statistical testing can point to situations where differing consumer preferences were met by the first generation of Lucanian and Apulian workshops.

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Acknowledgements V
  3. Editorial Board VI
  4. Contents VII
  5. Introduction
  6. 1 The A.G.A.T.H.O.C.L.E.S. Project and Beyond: Archaeology of Gesture and Material Consciousness in Ceramic Studies 1
  7. Section I: The Shapes of Clay: Manufacturing and Local Traditions
  8. 2 What Makes Aeginetan Cooking Pots So Special? Technological Choices in Ancient Aegina’s Pottery Production 13
  9. 3 Production Relationships between Attic Black-glazed and Figured Pottery 25
  10. 4 Potters in South Italian Red-Figured Workshops: An Overview 35
  11. 5 Clay Crafting, Hand Modeling: A Coroplastic Perspective. Case-Studies from Sicily and Magna Graecia 49
  12. 6 The Manufacture of “Thickened-edge” Roof Tiles between Unintentional Traces and Intentional Marks: The Case of the Hellenistic-Roman Temple in Agrigento 69
  13. 7 Teanum Ware Pottery from Loc. Cappella Marcella (Castrocielo, Frosinone) 79
  14. Section II: Populating the Ancient Pottery Industry
  15. 8 Timing Euxitheos and Euphronios: Energetics and the Scale of Production in the Athenian Potters’ Quarters 91
  16. 9 Reconstructing the Scale of Athenian Vase-Painting Workshops 111
  17. 10 Potters’ Tools at the Kerameikos of Selinous 125
  18. 11 Pottery Production in Pompeii, Step by Step: From Excavations to Experimental Archaeology 133
  19. 12 Republican Kilns at Pollentia-Urbs Salvia: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Study of a Local Ceramic Production 147
  20. Section III: Workshop Recipies and Craft Production Systems: Technologies Magnified
  21. 13 Magnific Magnification at Locri Epizephyrii: An Insight into the Surface of Western Red-figured Vases 157
  22. 14 Examining the Red and Black Surfaces of Apulian Red-figured Pottery: Raw Materials and Technological Features 173
  23. 15 Reconstructing Pottery Production in Archaic Rome and Latium: Integrating Traditional Approach and Archaeometry 183
  24. 16 Black-glazed Pottery from Locri Epizephyrii: New Evidence from the Technological Study of the Local Hellenistic Production 193
  25. 17 Roof Tiles with the ΣΩΣΗΝΟΣ Stamp: Calabrian Production in Sicily 199
  26. 18 Preliminary Observations on the Interdisciplinary Project of Roman Amphorae from the Territory of Ostia 207
  27. 19 A True Melting Pot: The Production of Cooking Ware at Fregellae, Southern Lazio (Italy), between the 4th and the 2nd Centuries B.C. 213
  28. Section IV: From Invisible to Visible: Artisanal Gestures, Ontologies, and Ceramic Networks
  29. 20 From Micro to Macro and Vice Versa: Technology Studies and Network Analysis on Red-figured Vase Production between Sicily and Campania 223
  30. 21 The Craft of Centuripe Vases: Techniques, Colors, Patterns 241
  31. 22 Kerameikos.org and Digital Accessibility for Ancient Greek Vases 255
  32. 23 New Perspectives in the Study of Western Greek Amphorae 269
  33. 24 Economic Principles in the Roman Economy: Modelling Mass Ceramic Production and Trade 285
  34. 25 Looking for the Lost Decoration of an Apulian Volute Krater by the Painter of Sèvres 1 303
  35. Section V: Craftspeople’s Mobility and Knowledge Transfer: Distribution and Statistics
  36. 26 Technology Transfer and Mobility During the Period of Greek Migrations to Italy (8th to 6th Centuries B.C.): Insights from Coarse ware Pottery 313
  37. 27 Regional Markets and Distribution Patterns of Laconian Pottery in Crete and Beyond: The Aeginetan Hypothesis (6th–5th Centuries B.C.) 327
  38. 28 Consumers and Vases in Early South Italian Vase-Painting 347
  39. 29 Hybridity and Exchange Models in Campania: The Case of Ionian Cups from Ancient Cumae 357
  40. 30 East Greek Inspirations on Attic Black-figured Pottery: The Implications for Clients and Trade Networks 365
  41. Epilogue
  42. 31 Greek and Roman Ceramic Producers: Operational Knowledge and Networked Mobilities 373
  43. List of Contributors 381
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111189635-028

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Acknowledgements V
  3. Editorial Board VI
  4. Contents VII
  5. Introduction
  6. 1 The A.G.A.T.H.O.C.L.E.S. Project and Beyond: Archaeology of Gesture and Material Consciousness in Ceramic Studies 1
  7. Section I: The Shapes of Clay: Manufacturing and Local Traditions
  8. 2 What Makes Aeginetan Cooking Pots So Special? Technological Choices in Ancient Aegina’s Pottery Production 13
  9. 3 Production Relationships between Attic Black-glazed and Figured Pottery 25
  10. 4 Potters in South Italian Red-Figured Workshops: An Overview 35
  11. 5 Clay Crafting, Hand Modeling: A Coroplastic Perspective. Case-Studies from Sicily and Magna Graecia 49
  12. 6 The Manufacture of “Thickened-edge” Roof Tiles between Unintentional Traces and Intentional Marks: The Case of the Hellenistic-Roman Temple in Agrigento 69
  13. 7 Teanum Ware Pottery from Loc. Cappella Marcella (Castrocielo, Frosinone) 79
  14. Section II: Populating the Ancient Pottery Industry
  15. 8 Timing Euxitheos and Euphronios: Energetics and the Scale of Production in the Athenian Potters’ Quarters 91
  16. 9 Reconstructing the Scale of Athenian Vase-Painting Workshops 111
  17. 10 Potters’ Tools at the Kerameikos of Selinous 125
  18. 11 Pottery Production in Pompeii, Step by Step: From Excavations to Experimental Archaeology 133
  19. 12 Republican Kilns at Pollentia-Urbs Salvia: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Study of a Local Ceramic Production 147
  20. Section III: Workshop Recipies and Craft Production Systems: Technologies Magnified
  21. 13 Magnific Magnification at Locri Epizephyrii: An Insight into the Surface of Western Red-figured Vases 157
  22. 14 Examining the Red and Black Surfaces of Apulian Red-figured Pottery: Raw Materials and Technological Features 173
  23. 15 Reconstructing Pottery Production in Archaic Rome and Latium: Integrating Traditional Approach and Archaeometry 183
  24. 16 Black-glazed Pottery from Locri Epizephyrii: New Evidence from the Technological Study of the Local Hellenistic Production 193
  25. 17 Roof Tiles with the ΣΩΣΗΝΟΣ Stamp: Calabrian Production in Sicily 199
  26. 18 Preliminary Observations on the Interdisciplinary Project of Roman Amphorae from the Territory of Ostia 207
  27. 19 A True Melting Pot: The Production of Cooking Ware at Fregellae, Southern Lazio (Italy), between the 4th and the 2nd Centuries B.C. 213
  28. Section IV: From Invisible to Visible: Artisanal Gestures, Ontologies, and Ceramic Networks
  29. 20 From Micro to Macro and Vice Versa: Technology Studies and Network Analysis on Red-figured Vase Production between Sicily and Campania 223
  30. 21 The Craft of Centuripe Vases: Techniques, Colors, Patterns 241
  31. 22 Kerameikos.org and Digital Accessibility for Ancient Greek Vases 255
  32. 23 New Perspectives in the Study of Western Greek Amphorae 269
  33. 24 Economic Principles in the Roman Economy: Modelling Mass Ceramic Production and Trade 285
  34. 25 Looking for the Lost Decoration of an Apulian Volute Krater by the Painter of Sèvres 1 303
  35. Section V: Craftspeople’s Mobility and Knowledge Transfer: Distribution and Statistics
  36. 26 Technology Transfer and Mobility During the Period of Greek Migrations to Italy (8th to 6th Centuries B.C.): Insights from Coarse ware Pottery 313
  37. 27 Regional Markets and Distribution Patterns of Laconian Pottery in Crete and Beyond: The Aeginetan Hypothesis (6th–5th Centuries B.C.) 327
  38. 28 Consumers and Vases in Early South Italian Vase-Painting 347
  39. 29 Hybridity and Exchange Models in Campania: The Case of Ionian Cups from Ancient Cumae 357
  40. 30 East Greek Inspirations on Attic Black-figured Pottery: The Implications for Clients and Trade Networks 365
  41. Epilogue
  42. 31 Greek and Roman Ceramic Producers: Operational Knowledge and Networked Mobilities 373
  43. List of Contributors 381
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