Terracotta Krater발음듣기
Terracotta Krater
(piano music)[Steven] We're in the Metropolitan Museum of Art looking at a gigantic clay pot.발음듣기
The shape of this vase makes it a crater and it was found at the Dipylon cemetery in Athens.발음듣기
[Elizabeth] Normally when we think about ancient Greek vases we think about containers for wine or liquids but this ceramic pot had a very different purpose.발음듣기
[Steven] We often think of headstones to mark a gravesite but the Greeks used ceramic vessels.발음듣기
[Elizabeth] And in fact the bottom of this vase is open and it's possible that liquid was poured in the top as an offering for the deceased.발음듣기
[Elizabeth] It is covered, every inch of this with decoration and that decoration is divided in two bands or registers.발음듣기
[Steven] This particular vase comes from an early period in Greek history and the style that is associated with is geometric because the surface is covered with geometric motifs.발음듣기
And this is a little bit unusual for the geometric period we see human figures and we see animals and the pictures remind us that this is funerary.발음듣기
[Elizabeth] The large central scene along the top register shows us a figure on a bier, a dead figure who's being mourned and the figures on either side of him, the female figures have raised their arms in a gesture of grief.발음듣기
[Steven] And some art historians have interpreted the decorative lines on either side of the figures as a reference to tears.발음듣기
[Elizabeth] And it's also possible that that checkerboard pattern that's above the deceased figure represents his funerary shroud but lifted so that we can see the body.발음듣기
[Steven] I love how the human forms are nearly as abstract as the geometric motifs that fill the rest of the vase.발음듣기
The torsos are nearly perfect triangles the heads which are shown in profile are basically circles with eyes in the center.발음듣기
[Elizabeth] And the legs are larger shapes as are the legs of the table that the deceased figure is on or the legs of the chair.발음듣기
When you walk up to this you might not even notice at first that you were looking at a narrative scene that you were looking at human figures.발음듣기
[Elizabeth] And the horses were given three horses at a time and appropriately there are six legs in the front and six legs in the back but there's no sense at all of the space the three horses would occupy.발음듣기
And yet in the scene of a funeral with perhaps his wife and child beside him and mourners around him we still get a really palpable sense of sadness, of death here.발음듣기
[Steven] The pot was decorated with a material that is called slip, very fine particles of clay that are suspended in a liquid and then painted on to the surface.발음듣기
The Greeks at this point didn't use kilns that were hot enough to create the glassy surface that we take for granted in modern ceramics that we call glaze and this kind of ceramic is known as slipware.발음듣기
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