Diodotos (gem cutter)

Diodotos ( Greek Διόδοτος ) was a Greek gem cutter in the 2nd half of the 1st century BC. Active in Rome. Of his work today signed a three-layer is Sardonyx - Kameo with the "head of the Gorgon Medusa receive".

literature

Andreas Rumpf : Diodotos (4) . In: Der kleine Pauly , Vol. 2, 1967, Col. 44.
Britta Gerring: Diodotos (III) . In: Rainer Vollkommer (Hrsg.): Künstlerlexikon der Antike . Volume 1: A-K. Saur, Munich / Leipzig 2001, ISBN 3-598-11413-3 , p. 172.

personal data
SURNAME	Diodotos
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Greek gem cutter Augustan period
DATE OF BIRTH	1st century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	1st century BC BC or 1st century