Billie Ingram-Sofokleous bi387 Object Biography for Greek Attic Vases.
Write a short ‘biography’ of this object, addressing the question of how its function, status and meaning may have changed over time. You should use no more than 750 words.
The object I am writing about is a ceramic container. These ‘’vases were made in [various] places notably in Attica, a region of Athens’’1. The achievement is in the clarity of the image made by the application of the coloured areas. ‘Many of the Attic vases surviving today were made in the Kerameikos…: the potters’ quarter of Athens, located to the northwest of the city’s Acropolis’2. The technique for making the vase: ‘‘[t]he production of an Athenian vase began with the digging of clay from a clay…show more content… An ‘oinochoe’7 is a vase for pouring wine as is therefore used for a simply utilitarian purpose. It is presumed to be a prized utensil displayed at parties and made by artisans to display their wealth and skill and probably made and sold for distribution in market stalls. This is supported by the fact that ‘Attic pots can normally be dated to within a quarter of a century’.8 this is significant as it becomes more scientifically viable to date the objects and the ability to talk them in context becomes…show more content… The catalogue prepared in 1857…where they now form the basis of one of the most important collections of … vases in the world’’11. An enterprise which allowed the esteemed objects to become ‘untouchable treasures’12 to move straight to the afterlife phrase of the life cycle as the objects have been put on pedestals to become appreciated by the sense of monetary rather than domestic practical to be shown to the modern culture of people to try and understand past
