Attic Black-Figure Pottery at Tomis: The Haimon Painter’s Cup-Skyphoi
Attic Black-Figure Pottery at Tomis: The Haimon Painter’s Cup-Skyphoi

Summary/Abstract: Various fragmentary cup-skyphoi, both known and relatively unknown, from Tomis led me to consider questions relating to the identification and distribution of some Attic black-figure vases – probably, the earliest on the Tomis scene – and I shall briefly explore here a tentative redating of the first Greek presence on the site. The stylistic features of the selected sherds are treated here in relation to the Attic workshop of the Haimon Painter. They are strikingly different from contemporary products, and their creator is, in my view, to be one of the first Attic black-figure painters present in Tomis.

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