Description
Book SynopsisA trade in Athenian pottery flourished from the early sixth until the late fifth century BCE, finding a market in Etruria. Most studies of these painted vases focus on the artistry and worldview of the Greeks who made them, but Sheramy Bundrick shifts attention to their Etruscan customers, ancient trade networks, and archaeological contexts.
Trade ReviewChallenges and enriches our understanding of the ancient economy, the Athenian vase trade and its Etruscan customers, the iconography of Attic vases, and Etruscan funerary practices."" - Denise Demetriou, author of
Negotiating Identity in the Ancient Mediterranean""Bundrick's emphasis on consumer choice is original and groundbreaking. She does not examine vases as isolated creations. By reconstructing Etruscan funerary assemblages, she demonstrates a coherence in the choice of iconographical subjects adorning the various vases deposited in a grave."" - Athéna Tsingarida, Université libre de Bruxelles
Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- 1 The Many Lives of Athenian Vases
- 2 The Nature of the Athenian Vase Trade
- Findspots and Distribution Data
- Pottery Workshop Deposits in Athens
- Trademarks, Batch Notations, and Price Inscriptions
- Shipwrecks with Commercial Cargo
- Conclusions
- 3 Context, Consumption, and Attic Vases in Etruria
- Liminality, Performativity, and Attic Vases in Etruscan Tombs
- A Tale of Two Assemblages
- Conclusions
- 4 Athenian Eye Cups Abroad
- Apotropaion vs. Symposion
- Athenian Eye Cups at Etruscan Vulci
- Conclusions
- 5 The Mastery of Water
- Herakles Meets the Merman
- Fountainhouse Hydriai and the Etruscan Culto dell’Acqua
- Conclusions
- 6 Attic Vases as Etruscan Cineraria
- Tarquinia
- Caere
- Vulci
- Foiano della Chiana
- Conclusions
- 7 The Etruscanization of Attic Figured Pottery
- Notes
- References
- Index
