Hyperbolos (coroplast)

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Signature of the hyperbolus

Hyperbolos ( Greek  Ὑπέρβολος ) was a Greek coroplast who lived around 170 BC. Was active in Myrina in Asia Minor.

Hyperbolos is only known from a signature on a fragmented clay statuette of the goddess of victory Nike from Myrina. The fragments of the statuette are 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. 58 (3), 1 (Bibliothèque de l'Institut français d'études anatoliennes d'Istanbul, 29th inscription online ).
  • Rainer Vollkommer : Hyperbolos . In: Rainer Vollkommer (Hrsg.): Künstlerlexikon der Antike . Over 3800 artists from three millennia. Nikol, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-937872-53-7 , p. 331.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Inventory number MYR 428
personal data
SURNAME Hyperbolos
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ὑπέρβολος
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek Koroplast
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd century BC BC or 2nd century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 2nd century BC Chr.