page_title: Pinax
section_title: Large finds
hierarchical_section_title: Pinax / Large finds
caption_attribution_description: English: A potter's workshop. Side B from a Corinthian black-figure pinax, ca. 575–550 BC. Found in Penteskouphia. Français&#160;: Atelier de potier. Face B d'un pinax corinthien à figures noires, vers 575-550 av. J.-C. Provenance&#160;: Penteskouphia.
context_page_description: In the modern study of the culture of ancient Greece and Magna Graecia, a pinax, meaning "board", is a votive tablet of painted wood, or terracotta, marble or bronze relief that served as a votive object deposited in a sanctuary or as a memorial affixed within a burial chamber.
  Such pinakes feature in the classical collections of most comprehensive museums.
  In the Third and Fourth Styles of Roman interior wall paintings, a pinax was a painted framed picture usually in the Main Zone of the wall surface.
context_section_description: At Locri in southern Italy, thousands of carefully buried pinakes have been recovered, most of them from the sanctuary of Persephone or that of Aphrodite.  Another large group of over 1,000 pottery pinakes was found at the site of Penteskouphia, just outside Corinth.  These are mostly in the Antikensammlung Berlin, with some in Corinth and the Louvre.  As well as the usual religious scenes, some of these show depictions of potters at work.  Berlin also has a smaller group of fragments from the Kerameikos cemetery in Athens, many by the painter Exekias.
caption: Pottery kiln, Penteskouphia
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