Gaios (stonemason)
Gaios ( Greek Γαῖος ) was a Greek stonemason who worked in Isauria in the middle imperial period .
Gaios was the son of the stonemason Paulos , his son was the sculptor Appas Porindeus . Together with his brother Appatas and with Zezis Porindeus he built the Peribolos around the Zeus sanctuary in Astra . He was one of the craftsmen known as technitai who worked as both a sculptor and a builder .
literature
- George E. Bean, Terence B. Mitford : Journeys in Rough Cilicia 1964-1968. Böhlau, Vienna 1970, pp. 133-134 No. 129 Fig. 111.
- Tomas Lochman: Gaios (V) . In: Rainer Vollkommer (Hrsg.): Künstlerlexikon der Antike . Volume 1: A-K. Saur, Munich / Leipzig 2001, ISBN 3-598-11413-3 , p. 261.
Individual evidence
- ↑ On Technitai in Asia Minor: Sencer Şahin u. a .: Catalog of the inscriptions in the Museum of Alanya. In: Epigraphica Anatolica 5, 1985, pp 135-136 ( full text ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gaios |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Γαῖος (Greek) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek stonemason |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 2nd century or 3rd century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd century or 3rd century |