Lasimos crater

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The Lasimos crater is used in archaeological research to be around 330-310 BC. Apulian volute crater produced by the BC , which was of great importance for research into Lower Italian vase painting .

The vase was in the collection of Giuseppe Valletta in Naples before 1688 . In 1688 it was acquired by Francesco Ficoroni for the collection of Cardinal Filippo Antonio Gualtieri in Rome, and in 1730 by Pope Clement XII. for the Biblioteca Vaticana , where it was exhibited from 1734. In 1797 it was brought to Paris by Napoleon and has been in the Louvre in Paris since 1799 (inventory number K 66 [N 3147]).

The Lasimos crater was frequently cited in the research literature from the late 18th to the early 19th centuries because the inscription LASIMOS EGRAPSE wanted to identify the name of a vase painter. This would have increased the number of vase painters known by name in southern Italy to three. Besides Lasimos , Asteas and Python were also known . The written form of the letters and the classification of the work of Lasimos in Lower Italian vase painting were scientifically discussed. But recent research has found that the name inscription on the crater is a modern ingredient on the otherwise ancient vessel. There was therefore no antique vase painter Lasimos. Arthur Dale Trendall ascribes the vase to the group of Taranto 7013 , which is the successor to the Patera Painter and the Baltimore Painter .

On the front of the crater, Opheltes is shown lying on his mother's lap .

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