Ageles (Koroplast)

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Ageles ( Greek  Ἀγέλης ) was a Greek Koroplast who lived in the 1st century BC. Was active in Myrina in Asia Minor.

Ageles is only known from a signature on a clay statuette of a young man leaning against a pillar. After its discovery, the statuette was in the Frank Calverts collection and is now in the Çanakkale Archaeological Museum .

literature

  • Dominique Kassab: Statuettes en terre cuite de Myrina. Corpus des signatures, monogrammes, lettres et signes . Paris 1988, No. 23 (3), 1 (Bibliothèque de l'Institut français d'études anatoliennes d'Istanbul, 29).
  • Rainer Vollkommer : Ageles . In: Rainer Vollkommer (Hrsg.): Künstlerlexikon der Antike . Over 3800 artists from three millennia. Nikol, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-937872-53-7 , p. 12.
personal data
SURNAME Ageles
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ἀγέλης
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