[[File:Komast cup Louvre E742.jpg|thumb|Attic komast cup, [[Louvre]]]] [[Image:Komast cup Louvre E741.jpg|thumb|Komast cup by the [[Falmouth Painter]], {{circa|560}} BC, Louvre]] The '''Komast cup''' (also '''Comast cup''') is a cup shape at the beginning of the development of [[Attica|Attic]] [[Kylix|drinking cups]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/tools/pottery/shapes/komast.htm |title=Beazley, Komast Cups |access-date=2016-07-12 |archive-date=2017-11-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171108051512/http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/tools/pottery/shapes/komast.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> Komast cups were widespread especially in [[Ionia]] and [[Ancient Corinth|Corinth]]. Like other vase painters of the time, the Attic painters were under strong influence from Corinthian vase painting.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/tools/pottery/shapes/komast.htm |title=Beazley, Cups |access-date=2016-07-12 |archive-date=2017-11-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171108051512/http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/tools/pottery/shapes/komast.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>
The name is derived from the artists' preferred theme, the [[Komos|''kōmos'']], a ritualistic drunken procession performed by revelers in ancient Greece, whose participants were known as komasts (κωμασταί, kōmastaí).<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/tools/pottery/shapes/komast.htm |title=Beazley, Cups |access-date=2016-07-12 |archive-date=2017-11-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171108051512/http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/tools/pottery/shapes/komast.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> This is a motif closely connected with [[Etruscan art|Etruscan]] vase painting.
The typical hemispherical shape with an angled "offset" lip and a low foot of only {{convert|1|–|2|cm|1}} height was an Attic development.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/tools/pottery/shapes/komast.htm |title=Beazley, Cups |access-date=2016-07-12 |archive-date=2017-11-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171108051512/http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/tools/pottery/shapes/komast.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> The interior of the cups is black, only a narrow stripe or band below the lip is left in the base clay colour. The foot and the exterior of the handles are also black. The first specimens were quite large, but throughout the period of their production, the cups became gradually smaller. The most important painters of Komast cups formed the so-called [[Comast Group]], with the [[KX Painter]] as its most significant member.
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== Bibliography == * [[Thomas Mannack]]: ''Griechische Vasenmalerei. Eine Einführung'', Theiss, Stuttgart 2002, p. 108f. {{ISBN|3-8062-1743-2}}. {{Greek drinking cups}} {{Commonscat|Komast cups }}
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