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AJA107 weight and thus its value. Rather, it was left with a surface patinated gray to black. Thus, gray and black ceramic wares, from fourth millennium B.C. Palestine to Bronze Age Crete and Anatolia, not to mention those from Etruria and Archaic and Classical Athens, regularly imitate vessels fashioned of considerably more precious silver. Although rarely surviving, these are, at least in the historic period, frequently described in ancient texts, such as temple inventories and courtroom speeches, epics, tragedies, comedies, and other literary genres. Vickers is unable to produce any surviving examples of the silver-figured gold (or bronze) vessels that he believes served as the models for Attic black-figure vases, and he does not rehearse here the more contentious assertions of his earlier publications regarding the originality (or lack thereof) of ancient vase painters. He does, however, discuss gold-figured silver vessels (recovered from tombs at Duvanlii, Semibratny, and elsewhere) that resemble Attic red-figure ceramics, and he repeats arguments that gold and silver items, produced in standard weights, served as the equivalent of large banknotes. Such objects, naturally, wer

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Author

J. B. Rives

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published

2003

Language

EN

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)