The circulation of Wild Goat Style pottery (MWGS I) from the Black Sea to Western Greece : reception and destination
Résumé
The author studies a group of Middle Wild Goat Style I pottery (mainly oinochoai and dinoi) that was made by one workshop, active in South Ionia in the third quarter of the seventh century BC. These are prestigious products with high-quality decoration and intended for export. They were found in both indigenous and Greek settlements in the Black Sea area (Temir Gora), the Western Mediterranean (Vulci, Incoronata, Siris, and Gela), and at the Samian Heraion. Their circulation, typical of the orientalizing hellenization of early archaic elites, helps us to understand their destinations and function. The contexts they were discovered in, exclusively sanctuaries and cemeteries, allow us to define them as pottery used for ritual. Their distribution also had an important effect on potters who had emigrated from Eastern Greece to Western Greece ("West Wild Goat Style").