Agathemeros (Koroplast)
Agathemeros ( Greek Ἀγαθήμερος ) was a Greek Koroplast who lived in the 1st century BC. Was active in Myrina in Asia Minor.
Agathemeros is only known from signatures on two clay statuettes . One statuette from Amorgos shows the god Apollo with a kithara and is now in the National Archaeological Museum in Athens , the other shows a rooster and is in the State Collection of Antiquities in Munich .
literature
- Dominique Kassab: Statuettes en terre cuite de Myrina. Corpus des signatures, monogrammes, lettres et signes . Paris 1988, No. 23 (1), 1/2 (Bibliothèque de l'Institut français d'études anatoliennes d'Istanbul, 29).
- Rainer Vollkommer : Agathemeros (I) . In: Rainer Vollkommer (Hrsg.): Künstlerlexikon der Antike . Over 3800 artists from three millennia. Nikol, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-937872-53-7 , pp. 9-10.
Individual evidence
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SURNAME | Agathemeros |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ἀγαθήμερος |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek Koroplast |
DATE OF BIRTH | 2nd century BC BC or 1st century BC Chr. |
DATE OF DEATH | 1st century BC BC or 1st century |