Maecius
Maecius ( Latinized from ancient Greek Μαίκυος and Μαίκιος ) was a Greek coroplast who lived at the end of the first century BC. Was active in Myrina in Asia Minor.
Maecius is of multiple signatures on four clay figurines known, two of which a flying Eros with grapes and two fighting each other Eroten show. The dating of the coroplasty to the end of the first century BC Was based on the stylistic characteristics of the pieces.
A statuette of the flying erotic and one of the fighting eros is in the Louvre in Paris , the second statuette of the fighting erotic is in the National Archaeological Museum in Athens , the whereabouts of the second statuette with the flying erotic is unknown.
literature
- Dominique Kassab: Statuettes en terre cuite de Myrina. Corpus des signatures, monogrammes, lettres et signes . Paris 1988, No. 48, 1 a / b; 48 2 a / c. (Bibliothèque de l'Institut français d'études anatoliennes d'Istanbul, 29).
- Rainer Vollkommer : Maecius . In: Rainer Vollkommer (Hrsg.): Künstlerlexikon der Antike . Over 3800 artists from three millennia. Nikol, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-937872-53-7 , p. 479.
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Maecius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek Koroplast |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 2nd century BC BC or 1st century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1st century BC BC or 1st century |