Dios (Koroplast)

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Dios ( Greek  Δῖος ) was a Greek Koroplast who worked in Myrina in Asia Minor in the 1st century .

Dios is only known from a signature on a clay statuette , which shows the god Eros with a goose. The statuette is now in the Louvre in Paris .

literature

  • Dominique Kassab: Statuettes en terre cuite de Myrina. Corpus des signatures, monogrammes, lettres et signes . Paris 1988, No. 23 (2), 1 (Bibliothèque de l'Institut français d'études anatoliennes d'Istanbul, 29).
  • Rainer Vollkommer : Dios . In: Rainer Vollkommer (Hrsg.): Künstlerlexikon der Antike . Over 3800 artists from three millennia. Nikol, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-937872-53-7 , p. 181.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Inventory number CA 266
personal data
SURNAME Dios
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Δῖος
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek Koroplast
DATE OF BIRTH 1st century BC BC or 1st century
DATE OF DEATH 1st century or 2nd century