CATÀLEG

  CRATERA DE COLUMNES 
Necropolis of Cabezo Lucero
(Guardamar del Segura)

Ceramics
h: 34.5 cm; w: 29.5 cm
Ibèric
460-450 BC
 

 

Cratera de columnes de ceràmica attica de l'estil de figures roges. Work of the painter from Florence. Restored. The inside of the foot and the surface of the base are in reserve. The upper part of the nail is decorated with lotus capolls and the outer edge with a wooden wreath of wooden beads. On the neck, a garland of stylised lotus capuchins. The scenes are framed laterally by two lines of dots separated by vertical lines and at the top by a frieze of tongues.
Side A (main side) depicts a meeting scene with four people, all dressed in their clothes. On the left, a young man in profile to the right holds a stick in his left hand. In the centre, two young men facing each other. The one on the left is holding a skewer in his right hand and the one on the right is holding a stick in his right hand. Behind, another young man in the same attitude. On side B (secondary) only the upper part of the head of two figures in profile is preserved.
Craters were used in Athens in the area of the banquet to sweep up water and wine. In the Iberian world they appear both in villages and in necropolises, where they form part of the funerary aixovar, although in eastern Andalusia they are used as a cinerary urn, a use that is only documented in the Contestània in a tomba from Cabezo Lucero. The artist to whom this piece is attributed, the painter from Florence, belongs to the early classical period, the so-called "Boreas-Florence group" by J.D. Beazley, made up of painters who decorate second-rate column craters.
CS: 5756
ARANEGUI, C.,1993.
BEAZLEY, J.D., 1963.