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172 TIIF ATTIC PYltl~
SALLY RUTUERFIJIlO ROBEaTs
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than the ring fOOl so that the base actually rests on the floor
rather tban Ihe fOOt (Fig. 17d). The diameter of the lid is 0.216, a
larger dimension for the lid than wc ha\c hitherto encountered.
The profile of a fragmentary lid from the Athenian Agora (no.
J) should be compared. Its diameter has been estimated at ca.
0.20. The contour of the lid is ,,'cry similar to no. I and it also
dates from the second quarter of the fourth cemury. The style has
no affinity .... ilh that of no. I.
The shape and mcasurcmcnb of a pyxis in Philadelphia (no. 2)
are dose 10 those of no. I. Onc l>lriking difference is that the
interior of no. 2 is rectangular. whereas in no. I it has the fonn of
a bowl. The wall is slightly COnC3\'C \,1.ith a sloping lo.....er keel. The
profile of lhe rim of the lid shows Ih~ same pro~cting beak with a
shon vertical s«lion below il as In the Athens pp,is. The lid
has a diameter orO.215. Around the l-enter of the lid i~ a moulded
band decorated .... ith an egg and dot pattern. There is a ring foot
joined by a curving contour 10 Ihe lo.... er keel. A groove articulate..
the junction with the lower keel.
A pyxis in Adolphseck (no. 6) has the most exaggerated prolile
of any of the fourth century pyxides of this class. The lid is
domed with a wide flat rim; the wall is conca\'e with a lower keel
whose projection is slightly less than that of th~ lid's rim. The
ring foot is connected by a cun'ed contour to the lower keel. The
dome of Ihe lid is reflected by the shape of the base. The
underside of the rim of the lid and the lo.....er flange are many
times grooved ghing a scalloped contour. There is more extensi\'e
articulation on the underside of the pyxis than on the uppersid~.
A pyxis from the Ceramicus (no. 4) has a slightl)' eonca\'e wall
with a sloping lower keel. The N'o-degree ring foot is connected
by a curved contour to the lo.....er keel. The lid is domed with an
uptilted rim whose projection is matched by that of the lower keel.
The pyxis was found with a red-figure lekanis, three lebetes
gamikoi and olher black and plain pots in an Opfersrelle in the
Ceramicus. Barbara Schlorb·Vierncisel considered the lebetes
gamikoi, lekanis and pyxis all to have been decorated in the same
shop. The wall of the pyxis is decorated with a pallern of
palmettes alternately vertical and reversed within a triangular
frame. This is an unusual pattern to find instead of the customary'
.... re:uh of Iea\·es. The lekanis wall also carries the same pattern
and the subject of the figured fri~ze interpreted by Schlorb­
Vierneisel as Epaulia on both lids is the sam~. Therefore the
theme decorating the pyxis. leaknis and lebetes gamikoi is
coordinated and the vases boughl for onc occasion probably here
(l funeral. One must here envision matched sets of red·figured
vaSL'S made in a shop and decorated Ilo'ith regard to a particular
theme decorating the pyxis, lekanis and lebetC1 gamikoi is
a range of vase: shapes to be made by a potter or pott~rs within a
ghen shop. In addition. it seems logical to expect in time to be
able to auribute \ases .....ithin this vase repertory to a painter or
group of painters, once a t)pe of ,ase Ilo ithin the repertory has betn
attributed to an :artiSI. A proof for the conjectural S~I of '-ase-; is
prodded by Ihe repr~entation on a Kerch lekanis lid. Athens 1190
(Iromispiece). A bride sits on a klisnlos .... ith Ems leaning against
her A full set of vases is grouped around her. To the leH a lebes
galllikus 311d a 10\\ broad pyxis. type C, to the right a tall pyxis of
type A. a lebes gamikos 3nd a lckallis. Another lebes gamikos is
brought by a woman.
Funher evidence of th~ "matched set" comes from the
Athcni:lIl Agor3. 1\ lekanis loo and the lid of a pyxis type AlS ha\'e
the same pallerns. Oblique addorsed palmenes linked by a
running scroll is Ihe main pattern on each. The subsidiary
patterns are also the same on OOth_ These pieces do not have the
same prrn'enance Iol.ithin the Agora but clearly come from th~
same shop.
This paltern seems to emerge around 430 a.C. The Marlay
Painter is known to have decorated leb~tes gamikoi and pyxides
as well as 10utrophoroi. l6 One would expect Itl find the
loutrophoros made .....ithin the same shop from its related them~.
Many lebetes gamikoi. !outrophoro; and a pyx;s are attributed to
the Washing !)ailllerY Loutrophoroi and lekanidL'S have been
attributed to the Mcidias Painter. JI Lebeles gamikoi. loulrophoroi.
lckanides and pyxidcs are among the repertory of shapes attributed
to the manner of Ihe Meidias Paintcr. Jt Lebetes gamikoi and a
lekanis ha\Ce been attributed 10 Ihe fourth century Mars}'3s
Painter.~