Bakchios (potter II)

Backchios ( Greek Βάκχιος ) was a Greek potter who lived in the second half of the 4th century BC. Worked in Athens and Ephesus .

From a civil rights inscription found in Ephesus from the 320s BC. It emerges that the potter Bakchios was the brother of a potter named Kittos and the son of a potter named Bakchios, who is identified with the potter Bakchios from Athens. The brothers had emigrated from Athens to Ephesus. According to the inscription, they made "black ceramics" and a hydria for the goddess Artemis on behalf of the city . Possibly they are also responsible for the production of the amphorae of Panathenaic shape made in local clay.

literature

Rainer Vollkommer : Kittos . In: Rainer Vollkommer (editor): Künstlerlexikon der Antike . Volume 1: A-K. Saur, Munich / Leipzig 2001, ISBN 3-598-11413-3 , p. 413.
Bettina Kratzmüller, Elisabeth Trinkl: On the trail of athletes and potters, Ephesian citizens . In: Synergia. Festschrift for Friedrich Krinzinger . Phoibos, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-901232-61-3 , pp. 157-167.

Remarks

↑ Inscriptions from Ephesus 1420 .
↑ For chronological reasons, however, this is not entirely certain, but given the rarity of these names in Attica, they must in any case have belonged to a pottery family, see * Martin Bentz : Panathenean Preisamphoren. An Athenian type of vase and its function from the 6th to 4th centuries. Century BC Chr. (= Antique Art Supplement 18). Association of Friends of Ancient Art, Basel 1998, ISBN 3-909064-18-3 , p. 28 note 114.

personal data
SURNAME	Bakchios
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Βάκχιος
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Greek potter
DATE OF BIRTH	4th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	4th century BC BC or 3rd century BC Chr.

[1] Inscriptions from Ephesus 1420 .

[2] For chronological reasons, however, this is not entirely certain, but given the rarity of these names in Attica, they must in any case have belonged to a pottery family, see * Martin Bentz : Panathenean Preisamphoren. An Athenian type of vase and its function from the 6th to 4th centuries. Century BC Chr. (= Antique Art Supplement 18). Association of Friends of Ancient Art, Basel 1998, ISBN 3-909064-18-3 , p. 28 note 114.