Kjellberg's new class of Clazomenian Sarcophagi

Abstract

Winter made a seemingly exhaustive classification when he divided Clazomenian sarcophagi into two main classes, which he called A and B (Anz., 1898, p. 175). His class A is the small class to which belong the big, deep, rectangular sarcophagi with copious decoration in Clazomenian B.F. style (i.e. B.F. without incised lines) like the sarcophagus in the British Museum (Murray, Terracotta Sarcophagi, Pl. 1–7). This has a gable-roof, as had, probably, all the others of this class. His class B is the big class, to which belong the large number of open, trapezoidal sarcophagi with decoration ranging from seventh-century pure East-Greek style down through different phases with different techniques to the most developed Clazomenian B.F. style of the end of the sixth and beginning of the fifth centuries. Recently, fresh evidence has enabled Kjellberg to add a third class, which he calls C (Jahrb., 41, p. 51). The sarcophagi of this new class have features both of A and B, but the style of decoration and the simple, rectangular shape seem to show that they must be considerably earlier than all of A and earlier than the earliest of B.