Epaphras (coroplast)
Epaphras ( Greek Ἐπαφρᾶς ) was a Greek coroplast who lived in the 2nd century BC. Was active in Cyprus .
Epaphras is only known from a signature on a clay statuette of the goddess Aphrodite with Eros . The complete inscription Ἐπαφρᾶς Θεοποιὸς ἐποί [ει] identifies Epaphras as a maker of votive statuettes . The statuette is now in the Cyprus Museum in Nicosia .
literature
- Ino Michealidou-Nicolaou: Un coroplathe à Chypre . In: Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 106. 1982. pp. 505-507.
- Martin Dennert: Epaphras . In: Rainer Vollkommer (Hrsg.): Künstlerlexikon der Antike . Over 3800 artists from three millennia. Nikol, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-937872-53-7 , p. 990.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Inventory number D 48.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Epaphras |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ἐπαφρᾶς (Greek) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek Koroplast |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 3rd century BC BC or 2nd century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd century BC BC or 1st century BC Chr. |