Provenance: Antikythera
shipwreck
Date: 1st c. BC
Exhibition Place:Temporary
Exhibitions Wing, Room II
The 47 lagynoi rietrieved
from the Antikythera wreck during the years 1900-1901 and 1976, formed one of
the most numerus group of vases and one of the most popular vases of the
Hellenistic period. Were used for transporting wine or for serving wine at the table.
Most of these, belong to
type with bi-conical body and to type with flat schoulder and conical body,
while lagynoi with a round body are missing eitirely. The most numerous group
includes unglazed lagynoi, with large dimensions (h. 0,28-0,34 m.). The high
neck is tubular, the base conical or in other cases, ring form and the handle,
which is always vertical, extends from the shoulder to a little below the rim
of the vase. Large unglazed lagynoi, utilitarian vases also known on Cyprus and Rhodes from the second quarter of the
3rd c. BC, were widespread in the 2nd and the first half of the 1st c.BC in
many regions of the eastern Mediterranean .
The white-ground lagynoi
from the shipwreck (9 examples) belong to type with bi-conical body have large
dimensions (h. 0,28-0,30 m.) and present the same morphological characteristics
as the unglazed ones. They were widely disseminated along the coasts of Asia
Minor, in Cyprus , in Egypt , in Israel ,
in the Aegean islands and especially on Delos, in Athens
and in the Peloponnese .
The third category, more
simplified and with very few examples, has horizontal bands of unequal
thickness set mainly on the edge of the shoulder, slightly above the base, thus
emphasizing the articulations of the vase. These bands were set either directly
on the clay or on a white slip. The chief characteristics of this catecory is
its more careless construction, such lagynoi were probably cheaper substitutes
for the category of decorated white-ground lagynoi.
Two lagynoi which have small
dimensions belongs to a special category. The first one has a bi-conical
flattened body, curved shoulder, and twisted handle and the other bi-conical
body with ring handles on its shoulder and relief decoration. Vases of similar
type and technique, include the lagynoi from Amorgos, Nisyros and Delos , from the 2nd c. BC.
The 47 lagynoi in the ship's
cargo formed a homogeneous group with similar morphological characteristics,
which on the basis of parallels may be dated from the 2nd to the mid 1st c.
BC., though it is not possible to determine a specific production centre beyond
that of the greater eastern Aegean area. These vases probably formed a part of
the ship's cargo for transporting wine.
Βιβλιογραφία: G. Leroux, .
Recherches sur la ceramique et l'art ornamental hellenistique, Paris Princeton 1997. E. Vivliodetis, The Lagynoi, in N.
Kaltsas - E. Vlachogianni - P. Bouyia (eds),The Antikythera Shipwreck: The
Ship, The Treasures, The Mechanism, Exhibition Catalogue, National
Archaeological Museum, April 2012 - April 2013, Athens 2012, 152-163 (Ε.
Vivliodetis).
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