Diomedes (stonemason)
Diomedes ( Greek Διομήδης ) was an ancient stonemason probably from the 3rd century from Cilicia .
Diomedes was the father of the stonemason Titos . He is known from a signature on a grave altar found in Dimöte Köy , which was signed by his son and himself as a stonemason ( Greek Τεχνίτης ). Erected for a late woman named Iate , it features a funeral meal on the front and family scenes on the sides. While the stone was prepared very expertly, the pictorial representations are rather clumsy, which suggests that father and son were more artisans than artists. The altar is now in the Alanya Museum .
literature
- Tomas Lochman: Diomedes (I) . In: Rainer Vollkommer (editor): Künstlerlexikon der Antike . Over 3800 artists from three millennia. Nikol, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-937872-53-7 , pp. 173-174.
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Diomedes |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Διομήδης (ancient Greek) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | antique stonemason |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 2nd century or 3rd century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd century or 4th century |