Charitaios
Charitaios was a Greek potter, active around 540-530 BC. In Athens .
He signed two rim shells , Rome, Museo Torlonia and Paris, Louvre Cp10260. He is one of the little masters .
The reading of the inscription on a hydria in Reading (Berks County, Pennsylvania) , Public Museum 32.769.1 (formerly New York, Charles W. Gould collection) is uncertain, the name could have been written here as Carithaios . After this vase, John D. Beazley named the Karithaios painter , to whom two other hydrates can be assigned.
literature
- John D. Beazley : Little-Master Cups . In: Journal of Hellenic Studies . Volume 52, 1932, p. 199.
- John D. Beazley: Attic Black-figure Vase-painters . Oxford 1956, p. 161.
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| SURNAME | Charitaios |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek potter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 7th century BC BC or 6th century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 6th century BC Chr. |