Naucratis Painter

The Naucratis Painter was a Laconian vase painter of the mid-sixth century BC. Naucratis was a Greek trading post (emporion) in Egypt. Two fragments of a kylix found in the Demeter Sanctuary, Cyrene, show that the Naucratis Painter was literate, and the form of a three-stroke iota suggests, moreover, that he was a foreigner in Laconia.[1]

Sphinx. Tondo from a Laconian black-figure cup by the Naucratis Painter, ca. 570 BC, Louvre

See also

Notes
  1. Gerald P. Schaus, 'A Foreign Vase Painter in Sparta" American Journal of Archaeology 83.1 (January 1979), pp. 102-106.
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Further reading
  • Lane, E.A., 'Lakonian Vase Painting', Annual of the British School at Athens 34 (1933–34) 99–189.
  • Pipili, M., Laconian Iconography (1987).
  • Stibbe, C.M., Lakonische Vasenmaler des sechsten Jahrhunderts vor Christus (Amsterdam, 1972).
  • Stibbe, C.M., Laconian Drinking Vessels and Other Open Shapes (Amsterdam, 1994).


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