The name refers to the technique which relies sometimes exclusively, on use of a rounded cutting tip which creates spheroid elements from which the figures are composed. It probably started as a convenient shortcut to making body masses, even in the 5th century but becomes the main technique and dictates style in the 4th century and later.
Incipient a globolo in the 5th century for a study of Herakles with club and bow.
Geneva 1962.19782. 15mm. Zazoff, no. 159.
A satyr on a raft supported by wine jars, holding a thyrsos and a dolphin. A parody of Herakles on his raft (see above, Myth Scenes 10). 4th cent.
Vienna IXB 203. 14mm. Zazoff, no. 228.
A horseman rides over a fallen warrior, from Campania (Gaeta). 4th cent.
Oxford Pr. 282. 16mm. Oxford Cat. no. 260.
Phaethon falling from his collapsing chariot. 4th/3rd cent.
Paris, Cab.Med., de Luynes 261. 16mm. Zazoff, no. 269.