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282 NOTICES OF BOOKSment on the choice of Niobids for pyxis decoration mighthave been made. P. 184, the setting of the Phrasikleiainscription is bad, as it is an elegiac couplet, the scansion ofwhich is hidden also by the updating of some of theletters. P. 185, we cannot be certain that the figure behindIphigeneia on the Palermo lekythos by Douris is nottouching her, as the vase is fragmentary. Reference shouldhave been made to Kurtz, Athenian White Lekythoi (1975)pi. 10, 1 and pp. 29-30. Dr Kurtz reminds us that therewas a fourth figure, of which a foot remains, and insteadof alpha rho beginning a word for altar (it certainlycannot be ara), they might be the start of Artemis' name.B. A. SPARKESThe University of SouthamptonCORINTH. American School excavations. Vol. vii, partiv. The red-figure pottery. By S. Herbert. Prince-ton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens.1977. Pp. x + 88, 36 plates. $25.00.The aim of this volume is to present the mostly frag-mentary Corinthian red-figured pottery from Corinth,although the title itself does not state that clearly.In the introduction Sharon Herbert thinks that thestimulus for Corinthian potters to imitate Attic potterywas not so much the Peloponnesian War, which cutdown imports to cheaper ware only, but the impossibilityof ordering special-purpose vases from Athens. There isalso a discussion of the technical devices the Corinthiansused to make their pale clay look like Attic. One wouldhave wished to see some colour photographs, as thosedevices differ from one workshop to another.The author presents the material, nearly 200 items,under three aspects. First she recognizes two workshopswith several painters, the Pattern and the Sketch Work-shop, which both produced during two generations. Inthe latter an Athenian, the Suessula painter, worked for ashort time. A third group consists of a few vases painted inadded colour. The future will test the separation of differ-ent hands.The next chapter is a very important one, as it gives athorough summary of 13 deposits which shows that dat-ing Corinthian red-figure by comparison with Attic red-figure—both in shape and style—would lead to too earlya dating. The rather conservative Corinthian potters andpainters must have worked during a period off. 425-350B.C.In the last and most voluminous chapter, the catalogueis arranged according to shape. One result is to demon-strate the selection of Attic shapes. The most popular onesin Corinthian red-figure are bell-kraters, skyphoi of Attictype and a small variant of the pelike. Around 400 B.C. onefinds the greatest variety: apart from those already men-tioned, the calyx-krater, the hydria, several shapes ofoinochoai, squat lekythoi, askoi, a lekanis, cups and plates.For the most part they repeat the Attic prototype withoutfollowing their evolution. Only one variation of thebell-krater is definitely not modelled after Attic pottery: abroad squat krater which seems to be a genuine Corin-thian invention. Its paintings also, among them Phlyaxscenes, do not correspond to Attic iconography.This study of Corinthian red-figured pottery is the firstfundamental essay on a fabric which was recognizedalmost a hundred years ago. With its plates of goodquality it will serve all who are interested in Greek pot-tery. One hopes that it will stimulate the publication ofother non-Attic red-figure vases, such as Elian or Chalci-dian.ADRIENNE LEZZI-HAFTERBernCORPUS VASORUM ANTIQUORUM. France. Fasc. 28.Musee du Louvre, fasc. 19. By H. Giroux. Paris:De Boccard. 1977. Pp. 56, 29 text figs., plates 23-78.•£25-55-This fascicule publishes 92 rf. cups or cup-frr. andfollows on Fasc. 10 (Villard). Devambez in his prefacenotes how much work has been done on the frr. byVillard, Beazley, Bothmer and Giroux; two cups arerepublished here from Fasc. 10 with substantial additions,and more such are listed in an appendix. Pis 23-37 areeye-cups (including the late archaic group); 38-55 othercups Type A with palmettes at the handles; 56-78 othercups Type A, cups with potter-signatures, and a fewothers. This is a model fascicule: cleaned vases; goodphotographs helped by meticulous description (so that,for instance, one is never in doubt whether a feature in thepicture is part of the design or fortuitous—chip or plasterjoin); foot-sections; full bibliographies; brief but enligh-tening discussion and comparison. Particular debts arenoted to Devambez and Bothmer, who is responsible formany associations and has supplied not a few frr. from hisown collection through the Metropolitan Museum, andto others; but G.'s own contribution is superlative. Thereare works of high quality, but the particular value is in thecoverage of rather ill-mapped regions: Euergidean work,for instance, associated on one side with Epiktetos, on theother with the circle of the Epeleios Painter (a murkyarea); or the illustration together on pis. 48-51 of G36 and38, ascribed by Beazley to one hand, and 37, given by himto the Thalia Painter as poor work but still better than theother two, though related to them. Where Beazley hadmade attributions these are accepted, with an occasionalnote of doubt: the comic slapdash G94 ter, of which B.said that the outside was near Epiktetos, the inside not, butthey were by the same hand, is said by G. to be certainlyby the same hand as N.Y. 22.139.28, placed by B. in thewider circle of the Nikosthenes Painter. Perhaps the re-semblance to Epiktetos (which the reviewer can just see),is due to the exterior being copied from a composition byhim. G.'s thoroughness and good sense leave a reviewerlittle to add. P. 47,2—4: greaves are worn also by theleft-hand warrior in the fight on the Euergides Painter'scup in Castle Ashby, CV pi. 34 (regrettably not notedthere in the text). Pis 68—9: the figure on the stool, in backview, is called a man by G. Is it not rather a woman, likethe other recipients of male attention in the picture? Pis72-3: 'continuous style' Theseids are surely less rare thanG. suggests; e.g. ARV2 115 no. 3, 191 no. 104, 192 no.107, 431 no. 47, 1153 no. 13, 1174 no. 1, 1269 no. 4, ARV660 bottom; and see Blatter in AA 1975 351 ff.MARTIN ROBERTSONCambridgehttps:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.2307/630849Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. University of Basel Library, on 11 Jul 2017 at 10:39:26, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at

Book Review: American School excavations: Corinth. American School excavations. Vol. vii, part iv. The red-figure pottery. By Herbert S. . Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens. 1977. Pp. x + 88, 36 plates. $25.00

Book Review: American School excavations: Corinth. American School excavations. Vol. vii, part iv. The red-figure pottery. By Herbert S. . Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens. 1977. Pp. x + 88, 36 plates. $25.00

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