Сups of the runners' Painter in the State Hermitage museum (to the question of attribution of the attic minor vase-painters)

The article is dedicated to an important aspect of attribution of the ancient painted pottery - to the attribution of common mass production, which was wide-spread in the ancient world together with works of outstanding vase-painters and which consists the main part of the collection of any museum with Attic vase-painting. Beazley method, based on the formal-stylistic analysis, is quite applicable to the attribution of both masterpieces and mass-production, in which the individual style of the vase-painter is not so obvious. The importance of the formal-stylistic analysis is demonstrated in the article on the example of several cups and fragments from the collection of the State Hermitage museum, attributed by the author to the Runners' painter, one of the common Attic little-masters of the last third of the 6th century BC.