Aristodamos
Aristodamos ( ancient Greek Ἀριστόδαμος ) was a Greek Toreut who worked in Argos in the second half of the 6th century .
He is known by a signature that is on an archaic bronze relief of a shield band . The upper half of the short preserved strip shows the Spartan King Menelaus , who after the Trojan War reclaimed his wife Helena from Paris . To the right of the scene is the goddess Athena . The lower half shows how the Centaur Nessos kidnaps the wife of Heracles Deianeira . The shield strap comes from a leather strap from the inside of a shield from around 575 BC. BC, which is proven above all by comparable finds from the Zeus sanctuary in Olympia . The relief is in the J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu .
Another shield band relief is associated with Aristodamos. It comes from Olympia and on it Aias is depicted with the corpse of Achilles . The inscription is only fragmentary, but is added as [Ἀ] ρισ [τόδαμος] .
literature
- Martina Seifert : Aristodamos . In: Rainer Vollkommer (Hrsg.): Künstlerlexikon der Antike . Volume 1: A-K. Saur, Munich / Leipzig 2001, ISBN 3-598-11413-3 , p. 85.
Remarks
- ↑ Malibu, J. Paul Getty Museum, inventory number 84.AC.11.
- ↑ Archaeological Museum Olympia , inventory number B 236.
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Aristodamos |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ἀριστόδαμος |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek Toreut |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 6th century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 6th century BC Chr. |