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What Travelled with Greek Pottery?

2007; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 22; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/09518960701539208

1743-940X

Robin Osborne,

Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies

Abstract During the sixth and fifth centuries very large amounts of Athenian black- and red-figure were transmitted round the Mediterranean. The nature of the exchange relations underlying this pottery distribution have long been a topic for discussion. This paper picks up on earlier arguments that Athenian potters responded to very specific orders from Italian markets and that Italian markets consumed voraciously whatever Athenian potters produced, and investigates what sort of information flowed along the network created by the exchange of pottery. By looking at the find contexts of Athenian pottery outside Athens, and at the images found on that pottery, I argue that in almost all circumstances Greek pottery presupposes rather than transmits cultural knowledge, and so is testimony to a pre-existing network, not an agent in creating new networks. Keywords: TradePotteryGreek HistoryEtruscansMediterranean Acknowledgements I am grateful to Christy Constantakopoulou and Katherina Panayopoulou for their invitation to the most hospitable conference at Rethymnon in May 2006, and to the two sympathetic and helpful readers who substantially reinforced the final product. Notes [1] Osborne Osborne, Robin. 2001. Why Did Athenian Pots Appeal to the Etruscans?. World Archaeology, 33(no. 2): 277–95. [Taylor & Francis Online] , [Google Scholar], ‘Pots’; ‘Why Did Athenian Pots Appeal?’ (with useful corrections of detail in Paléothodoros Paléothodoros, Dimitrios. 2002. Pourquoi les Étrusqueses achetaient-ils des vases attiques?. Les études classiques, 70: 139–60. [Google Scholar], ‘Pourquoi les Étrusques achetaient-ils?’). The conclusions about voracity square with those offered independently by Reusser Reusser, Christoph. 2002. Vasen für Etrurien. Verbreitung und Funktionen attischer Keramik im Etrurien des 6. und 5. 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