Bryn Mawr College Scholarship, Research, and Creative Work at Bryn Mawr College Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology Faculty Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology Research and Scholarship 1980 Review of Die ostgriechischen Grabreliefs II, by Ernst Pfuhl and Hans Möbius Brunilde S. Ridgway Bryn Mawr College, [email protected] Let us know how access to this document benefits ouy . Follow this and additional works at: http://repository.brynmawr.edu/arch_pubs Part of the Classical Archaeology and Art History Commons, and the History of Art, Architecture, and Archaeology Commons Custom Citation Ridgway, Brunilde S. 1980. Review of Die ostgriechischen Grabreliefs II, by Ernst Pfuhl and Hans Möbius. American Journal of Archaeology 84:543-544. This paper is posted at Scholarship, Research, and Creative Work at Bryn Mawr College. http://repository.brynmawr.edu/arch_pubs/30 For more information, please contact [email protected]. 1980] BOOK REVIEWS 543 scenes of lovemaking and the Return of Hephaistos 72: the inconsistent use of the words "satyr" and (pl. 72), and a hydria of the Leagros Group repre- "silen" for the same creatures is disturbing. P1. 75: the senting Achilles dragging the body of Hektor (pl. 82). description of the predella is confusing. One wonders The most significant cups include a variant of the whether a vase with so much overpainting deserves type A, decorated by the Amasis Painter with an eye- publication. Pl. 78: to the bibliography on the hydria siren and a pair of plump masturbating revellers, a Toledo 1950.261, add Kurt T. Luckner, in Midwest- of and humor ern Collections masterpiece drawing (pls. 1oo, 5; ioi), pp. 8o-8i, no. 48. P1. 81: for the subject and a magnificent eye-cup of the Krokotos Group, matter of both the shoulder and body panels, compare adorned with masks of Dionysos peering out from a hydria in the Kanellopoulos Collection, Athens, at- vine bowers (pl. 102). Among the other shapes, there tributed by Maria Brouskari to the Antimenes Painter is an exquisite dinos complete with stand (pls. 65, (AAA 9 [1976] cover and p. 148). To the bibliogra- 2-4; 66). Around the interior of the rim, four sailing phy on the hydria Toledo I961.23, add Kurt T. ships ply through water, which would have merged Luckner, in Midwestern Collections pp. I18-19, no. 67, with wine when the vessel was full. and color plate III. Pl. 82: under the description of Many of the vases in this fascicule appear in Beaz- accessory colors, for "chlamys" of Kyknos' charioteer, ley's lists in ABV and Paralipomena. In addition read "chiton." P1. 87: the mock inscription over the eleven other pieces are here assigned to painters or river-god Acheloos should have been mentioned. To groups by various scholars. These include a hydria at- the bibliography, add Kunstwerke der Antike, Auk- tributed to the Taleides Painter by Mary B. Moore tion 56, 19. Februar 1980, Miinzen und Medaillen AG and Dietrich von Bothmer (pl. 73), an especially fine Basel p. 28, under no. 64. Pls. 97, 6; 98, i-2: for the fragmentary hydria recognized as a work of the Ry- subject, compare also the band-cup Columbia, Univer- croft Painter by Moore (pls. 83; 85, I), and a lip-cup sity of Missouri 69.11I, attributed by William Biers attributed by Martin Robertson to the Oakeshott to the Centaur Painter (Midwestern Collections pp. Painter (pl. 90o, 1-2). The loutrophoros-hydria on pl. 76-77, no. 46). Pl. Io2: to the bibliography, add E.E. 67, assigned to the Polos Painter by Herbert Hoff- Bell, "Two Krokotos Mask Cups at San Simeon," does not seem to be his hand. mann, by Contrast, for CSCA Io (i977) pp. 4, 7, and 13, n. 21. P1. 0I, I: example, the hydria no. 76.34 (pls. 68; 69, i), which the date of ca. 510-500 proposed for this cup seems is surely a work of this Painter. Although more than too late; the reviewer would prefer a date of ca. 530- half of the vases here presented have already been 520. The Boston kylix has been attributed to the attributed, the fascicule still offers a rich field for by A.D. Ure ("Krokotos and White And for those scholars interested Krokotos.Painter stylistic investigation. Heron,".JHS 75 [i9551 97, no. io). P1. 105: the di- in iconography, the subject matter of the vases will mensions given are incomplete. Pl. 1o9, 3-4: to the bib- indeed a treasure trove. prove liography on Leyden 1954.2.2, add C VA Leyden i, C Boston 2 the same VA exhibits high standards pls. 19, 1-2; 20, 1-2. P1. Io9, 17: is not the youth that have characterized all of the recent American moving to right, with his head averted? fascicules. The material is precisely and fully described With its well documented text and rich illustrative and documented in a text almost completely free of material, CVA Boston 2 offers those interested in At- printing errors. The plates are laid out in a logical and tic vase-painting an invaluable tool for study and a And aesthetically pleasing arrangement. the cost of the source of intellectual and visual pleasure. One hopes is modest fascicule, $40.00, by today's standards. The that the promised fascicule 3, which will complete the plates display some shortcomings, but their quality is publication of the Attic black-figure material, will in general very high. Some of the illustrations, such as soon appear. those on pls. 74; 76, 1; and io8, 12-15, are too dark; EVELYN E. BELL and the photographs on pls. 107, 2, and io9, 16, are DEPARTMENT OF ART HISTORY out of focus. One would wish for details of several of UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA the vases, in particular the hydria by "Elbows Out" BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA (pl. 72), the predellae of the hydriai on pls. 75-78 and the on kalpis pl. 85, 2-3. DIE OSTGRIECHISCHENGRABRELIEFS Ernst Some to the text useful. Pls. II, by supplements may prove and Hans Text 65, 2; 66: to the bibliography, add Hector Williams, in Pfuhl Mobius. vol., pp. 334 (xxv- Warren G. Moon, Greek Vase-painting in Midwestern xxix + 279-612), figs. 59 (figs. 73-130); plates Collections (The Art Institute of Chicago 1979) p. 62 vol., pp. xix-xxviii, pls. 170-332. Deutsches Ar- (hereafter Midwestern Collections). For no. 8 in chdiologisches Institut. Philipp von Zabern, D. von Bothmer's list of dinoi with on the ships inside Mainz, 1979. of the rim, Chicago, University, see Williams, in Mid- western Collections pp. 62-63, no. 37; its inventory A previous issue of AJA (82 [1978] 414-15) de- number is I967.II5.I4I. For no. I3, Cleveland 71.46, tailed the troubled history of this Corpus of East see Barbara A. Kathman, in Midwestern Collections Greek grave reliefs when the first two volumes (one pp. IIo-II, no. 63, and the reference there cited. P1. of text and one of plates) appeared.History repeats 544 AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGY [AJA 84 itself: as Pfuhl had died just after completing the Smyrna (no. 1450) depicts a man and his horse next main text, so now M6bius died after putting the final to a statuette standing on a high pedestal and holding touches to his manuscript, but before he could see in a theatrical mask, perhaps an allusion to the cult of print the fruits of his thirty years of labor on Pfuhl's the Muses and the musical competitions centering on initial version. As Pfuhl's photograph prefaced the Hellenistic burials. contents of Vol. I, so now appropriately M6bius' por- Some of the elements common to Riders' stelai oc- trait begins Vol. II, and a short preface by W. Krii- cur also in the next two categories: Libation and Of- mer, dated December 1978, updates the vicissitudes of fering, and Banquet. This latter is perhaps the largest this magnum opus. of the groupings (nos. 1488-2066) and allows several This second set of volumes follows the first in all re- subdivisions, including some for which the absence of spects: pages, figures and plates are numbered consec- the dish-laden table precludes the traditional identifi- utively and the entries begin with no. 1128 (up to cation as a funerary meal (nos. 2034-39). Among no. 2323). The format is the same: each typological them, note the 2nd c. B.C. naiskoi with archaistic grouping is preceded by extensive general comments karyatids supporting the entablature with one raised and the entries are limited to description, with a mini- hand. Since several publications have dealt with the mum of interpretation. Different scenes on the same Totenmahl in recent years, Pfuhl's original comments stele are discussed under various headings, so that have been considerably shortened, but a useful discus- complete knowledge of certain pieces can be acquired sion of the various elements has been retained, to- only by consulting three or more entries. Extensive gether with helpful chronological hints. One stele, no. indices follow the catalogue proper: findspots, present i868, belongs still to the end of the 4th c. B.C. and location, general topics, inscriptions-these last sub- seems transitional between Attic votive reliefs of the divided according to names: personal, geographical, of Classical period and Hellenistic Ionic gravestones. gods, heroes, sculptors, even dogs-and there are con- Other categories are less rich: Prothesis, Cilician cordances to the inscriptions and to other major publi- rock-reliefs; Gods and Symbolic Figures; Protomes cations of gravestones. Nonetheless I still find it diffi- and Busts (a long-lived local tradition beginning in cult to go from plate to text; one more concordance the Late Hellenistic period but independent from the (between illustrations and entries) would have been late Republican-early Imperial Roman tombstones); helpful.