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Broneer, O ... American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... The calyx-krater of Exekias, first published in 1937,1 was discovered at the bottom of a well in the American School excavations on the North slope of the Acropolis in Athens. The circumstances of discovery ... 1956 ... Had the fragments been thrown over the Acropolis wall together with other debris, it is unlikely that so many could have found their way together into the same well.2 Some of the fragments, however, were lost on the way down; about a third of the vase is still missing. ... Since my first article on the North Slope krater was published, some important literature has appeared dealing with the art of Exekias and with the relation of the krater to the rest of his works.6 All have accepted the attribution to Exekias and the chronological order I proposed, placing the krater near the end of Exekias'career. ... For the less common position of the protagonist cf. the bearded hoplite who has just thrust his spear into the mounted Amazon on a cup in Bologna, Emanuel Löwy, Polygnot, fig. 8b; Pfuhl, Malerei und Zeichnung der Griechen, III, 504.
6. Ernest Buschor, Griechische Vasen, 1940, pp. 114 ff.; Bernhard Neutsch, "Exekias, ein Meister der griechischen Vasenmalerei," Marburger Jahrbuch für Kunstwissenschaft, XV, 1949/50, pp.43-72; J. |
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