Lasimos

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Lasimos ( Greek  ΛΑΣΙΜΟΣ ) is the supposed name of an Apulian - Greek vase painter .

Lasimos is the inscribed name on the shoulder on an Apulian volute crater , the so-called Lasimos crater after the inscription . The crater came into the collection of the Neapolitan Giuseppe Valletta in the first half of the 18th century . It is unclear whether the inscription was on the crater before or was added shortly after it was added to the collection. Despite early doubts from Antonio Francesco Gori , the inscription was considered genuine for centuries and Gori's doubts were initially contradicted, but later they were completely forgotten. However, errors in the inscription were evident. The incised name inscription goes over both the original antique and the modern, restored part of the vase. In addition, the Ψ in ΕΓΡΑΨΕ - the complete inscription read in Greek  ΛΑΣΙΜΟΣ ΕΓΡΑΨΕ , Lasimos made it - is very imaginative.

Lasimos would be next to the Paestan vase painters Asteas and Python the third known by name Lower Italian vase painter and the only one known from Apulia, where most of the Lower Italian vases were produced. But in 1982 Arthur D. Trendall and Alexander Cambitoglou proved the forgery. After stylistic research, the vase was attributed to the Taranto Group 7013 , who succeeded the Patera Painter and the Baltimore Painter . Nevertheless, there are still entries on Lasimos in many specialist dictionaries, for example in Thieme-Becker .

The vase by the alleged painter Lasimos came to the Louvre in 1797 via the Vatican Apostolic Library , where it is now kept under inventory number K 66 .

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