Epigraphy of Art: Ancient Greek Vase-Inscriptions and Vase-Paintings

Ancient Greek vase-paintings offer broad-ranging and unprecedented early perspectives on the often intricate interplay of images and texts. By bringing together—for the first time in English-language scholarship—an international group of leading scholars in classical art and archaeology who have worked on vase-inscriptions, this book investigates epigraphic technicalities of Attic and non-Attic inscriptions on pottery as well as their broader iconographic and sociocultural significance. The ten chapters in this book propose original and expert methodological approaches to the study of vase-inscriptions and vasepaintings, while also foregrounding the outstanding but not fully examined importance of the area of vase-inscriptions for current research on ancient Greek visual representations. Epigraphy of Art: Ancient Greek Vase-Inscriptions and Vase-Paintings constitutes a major contribution to the fields of Greek epigraphy and classical art and archaeology and will prove significant for epigraphists, archaeologists, and art-historians interested in the complexities of the interaction of art and text.

Table of Contents

Preface: Art and Epigraphy: Ancient Greek Vase-Inscriptions (Dimitrios Yatromanolakis)

Inscriptions and Visual Representations on Attic Vases: Questions, Methodologies, Technical and Contextual Approaches: Chapter One: Soundscapes (and Two Speaking Lyres) (Dimitrios Yatromanolakis)

Chapter Two: Hipparchos kalos (Thomas Mannack)

Chapter Three: ‘So-and-so καλή’: A Reexamination (Guy Hedreen)

Chapter Four: Inscribed Mythical Names on Attic Vase-Paintings from 570 to 530 BC: A Contextual Approach (Burkhard Fehr)

Chapter Five: Meaningless, But Not Useless! Nonsense Inscriptions on Athenian Little-Master Cups (Pieter Heesen)

Inscriptions on Apulian Vases: Chapter Six: Inscriptions on Apulian Red-Figure Vases: A Survey (John H. Oakley)

Chapter Seven: Some Observations on Apulian Vase-Inscriptions with a Particular Focus on the Darius Painter (Thomas H. Carpenter)

Visual Identities: Attic and Corinthian Inscriptions and the Significance of their Placement: Chapter Eight: Instant Messaging: Dance, Text, and Visual Communication on Archaic Corinthian and Attic Vases (Tyler Jo Smith)

Chapter Nine: Tracing Letters on the Eurymedon Vase: On the Importance of Placement of Vase-Inscriptions (Georg Simon Gerleigner)

Chapter Ten: Sophilos, Inscriptions, and the Funeral Games for Patroklos (Mary Moore)