Gaios (sculptor from Lystra)
Gaios ( Greek Γάϊος ) was an ancient sculptor from Lystra in Lycaonia during the Roman Empire .
Gaios is known from a singular inscription on a statue base from Zosta, today Akarköy in the Turkish province of Karaman , on which he was mentioned together with his brother Titos , who was also a sculptor. The statue belonging to the base and other works are not known. A more precise dating of the base is not yet possible.
literature
- Tomas Lochman: Gaios (III). In: Rainer Vollkommer (editor): Künstlerlexikon der Antike . Over 3800 artists from three millennia. Nikol, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-937872-53-7 , p. 260.
- Walter Amelung : Gaios of Lystra . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 13 : Gaab-Gibus . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1920, p. 83 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Pierre Paris , Georges-Albert Radet : Inscriptions de Pisidie, de Lycaonie et d'Isaurie. In: Bulletin de correspondance hellénique . Volume 10, 1886, p. 511 No. 27 ( digitized version) .
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gaios |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Γάϊος (ancient Greek) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | ancient sculptor of the Roman Empire |
| DATE OF BIRTH | between 1st century and 3rd century |
| DATE OF DEATH | between 1st century and 4th century |