Appatas
Appatas ( ancient Greek Αππάτας ) was a Greek stonemason who worked in Isauria during the middle Roman Empire .
It is only known from an inscription from Astra : According to this, Appatas was the son of the stonemason Paulos and brother of the stonemason Gaios . Together with Gaios and Zezis Porindeus he built the Peribolus around the Zeus sanctuary in Astra. He was one of the artists known as the Technites who worked as both sculptors and construction workers.
literature
- George E. Bean, Terence B. Mitford : Journeys in Rough Cilicia 1964-1968. Böhlau, Vienna 1970, pp. 133-134 No. 129 Fig. 111.
- Tomas Lochman: Appatas . In: Rainer Vollkommer (Hrsg.): Künstlerlexikon der Antike . Volume 1: A-K. Saur, Munich / Leipzig 2001, ISBN 3-598-11413-3 , p. 75.
Individual evidence
- ↑ On Technites in Asia Minor: Sencer Şahin u. a .: Catalog of the inscriptions in the Museum of Alanya. In: Epigraphica Anatolica 5, 1985, pp 135-136 ( full text ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Appatas |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Αππάτας (Greek) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek stonemason |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 2nd century or 3rd century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd century or 3rd century |