Monumentalising Vase-Inscriptions [chapter]

Georg Simon Gerleigner, François Lissarrague
2022 Image, Text, Stone  
The craftsmen who decorated Greek painted pottery wrote virtually anywhere on the surface of a vase, within or outside figurally decorated areas:1 for instance rims,2 handles,3 between handles,4 on feet,5 separated strips6 or on the exergue of cup tondi.7 Within figural scenes, vase-painters generally placed letters (or sometimes letter-like signs) anywhere as well, the placement in some cases following conventions8 or conventional decoration schemes of particular types of vessels, the most
more » ... inent example being the palmette-flanked letter-chains in the handle zone of Little Master lip cups.9 In pictures, inscriptions were sometimes even put on all sorts of painted 1 See Lissarrague 2013. 2 Attic black-figure neck amphora signed ΕΧΣΕΚΙΑΣΕΓΡΑΦΣΕΚΑ[Π]ΟΕΣΕΕΜΕ: Berlin, Antikensammlung F 1720, from Vulci; Beazley Archive Pottery Database (= BAPD) 310383; Attic Vase Inscriptions database (= AVI) 2216. Attributions to Attic painted pottery are based on Beazley (ABV or ARV 2) unless noted otherwise; attributions to Corinthian painted pottery are based on Amyx (CVP). 3 Attic red-figure kylix attributed to Makron and signed ΗΙΕΡΟΝΕΠΟΙΕΣΕΝ (scratched): Berlin,
doi:10.1515/9783110775761-010 fatcat:xr5grkom35g45bmn5nd7f5lah4