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OROPOS AND EUBOEA
IN THE EARLY
IRON AGE

Charalampidou Polyxeni
University of Athens

The Sub-Geometric and Archaic wheel-made pottery from Oropos: the decoration

The examination of the Subgeometric and Archaic pottery from the site of Skala Oropou deserves our attention because it reflects the wide range of potters and painters' stylistic attitudes and comes from stratified layers of the settlement. The Subgeometric pottery involves shapes and decoration that show the complexities of an artistic development in a transitional period, when old-fashioned and new currents appear contemporarily. The Archaic pottery also shows that the geographical location of Oropos in the borderline between Northern Attica and Boeotia and opposite Eretria is to a large extent responsible for the style of its ceramic material.

During this presentation, we will focus on the decoration of the Subgeometric and Archaic pottery with references to the shapes. A choice of examples has been made and will be presented according to the compositions on the vases, the main decorative themes and the supplementary motifs that fill the background. A comparison, concerning the similarities and the differences between the pottery from Oropos and the pottery from other workshops will be attempted. A discussion about the possibility of the existence of a local ceramic workshop will follow.

Both in the Subgeometric and Archaic pottery from Oropos, from the early 7th until the opening decades of the 6th century BC, a strong connection with the Euboean pottery can be detected. The influence of the Protoattic style is also apparent during the 7th century. Other features of the Corinthian, Cycladic and East Greek workshops which are attested in the material from Oropos during this period, have also influenced the Euboean ceramic production. In the course of the 6th and the early 5th centuries BC vases from Oropos find parallels in Attica, Euboea and Boeotia (some black-figure vases), frequently under Corinthian influence (eg kotylai of the Corinthian type, miniature kotylai and kotylai with groups of multiple-brush lines around the base).

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