Byzes
Byzes ( ancient Greek Βύζης ) was a in the early 6th century BC. Active builder from Naxos .
He is only known from a mention in Pausanias . There the donor's inscription of an Euergos, son of Byzes, is quoted, in which the latter states that his father Byzes was the first to make marble roof tiles . According to Pausanias, this Byzes lived in the time of the Alyattes of Lydia and the Medean king Astyages .
On the Athens Acropolis , a roof tile made of Naxian marble bears the initial letters CY, according to the Naxian alphabet BY, which have been interpreted as the signature of Byz. The marble roof of the reconstruction of the oldest Apollon temple on Delos (the so-called Naxier-Oikos) was ascribed to him.
literature
- Aenne Ohnesorg : Island-Ionian marble roofs. de Gruyter, Berlin 1993, p. 65. 141.
- Christoph Höcker : Byzes. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 2, Metzler, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-476-01472-X , Sp. 880.
- Gottfried Gruben : Naxos and Delos. In: Yearbook of the German Archaeological Institute 112, 1998, p. 411.
- Werner Müller: Byzes. In: Rainer Vollkommer (Hrsg.): Künstlerlexikon der Antike . Volume 1: A-K. Saur, Munich / Leipzig 2001, ISBN 3-598-11413-3 , p. 126.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pausanias 5:10 , 3.
- ↑ Konstantin Kissas: Archaic architecture of the Athens Acropolis. Roof tiles - metopes - geisa - acroter bases. Reichert, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-89500-623-4 , p. 5.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Byzes |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Βύζης (Greek) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek builder |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 7th century BC BC or 6th century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 6th century BC Chr. |