The Attic Red Figure Vases At Zacatin (Granada, Spain)

In the city of Granada (Spain), during a rescue excavation at the foot of the Iberian oppidum of Iliberri, calle Zacatin, 5000 pottery sherds were uncovered in a pit (mainly Greek fragments but Iberian too), and also small items of Greek glassware. The precise context and function are still obscure. Greek pottery is composed of Attic vessels (2000 fragments) having homogeneous formal and iconographic features, stemless cups especially, some cups (scarcely found in the Iberian Peninsula outside Ampurias), and skyphoi, dated to the second quarter of the 4th century BC, and which can be assigned to the Vienna 116 Painter; some other pieces belong to the Group FB et to the Meleager Painter. This exceptional set - by its homogeneity and the amount of sherds-will allow to examine in depth the questions of the Athenian pottery workshops structuring and organisation, and also of transport modalities.