Gageos
Gageos was a Greek potter, active around 540-530 BC. In Athens .
He is only known by his signature on an Attic black-figure kylix from Vulci , today in the Vatican, Museo Gregoriano Etrusco Inv. 39545 (formerly Guglielmi Collection). Gageos is one of the small masters . Both Wilhelm Koch in his work The Greek Vases with Master Inscriptions. in 1887 as well as later John D. Beazley in his lists of works considered the name to be a sequence of letters that was supposed to fool a name, due to the non-typically Greek name they considered it non-existent.
literature
- John D. Beazley : Little-Master Cups . In: The Journal of Hellenic Studies . Volume 52, 1932, pp. 173-174.
- John D. Beazley: Attic Black-figure Vase-painters . Oxford 1956, p. 163.
- Francesco Buranelli: La Raccolta Giacinto Guglielmi. Vol. 1: La ceramica . Città del Vaticano 1997, pp. 123-124 No. 41.
- Till O. Scholz: Gageos . In: Rainer Vollkommer (Hrsg.): Künstlerlexikon der Antike . Volume 1: A-K. Saur, Munich / Leipzig 2001, ISBN 3-598-11413-3 , p. 260.
Web link
- Gageos in the Beazley Archives
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gageos |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek potter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 7th century BC BC or 6th century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 6th century BC Chr. |