Menaidas
Menaidas was a Boeotian potter, active in the 1st half of the 6th century BC. Chr.
He is only known by his signature on four vessels:
- Aryballos Paris, Louvre CA 128
- Aryballos in the shape of a canteen Athens, Kanellopoulos Museum 737
- Aryballos in the form of a pomegranate Bonn, Academic Art Museum 2128
- Pear-shaped alabastron , Heidelberg, University of Antiquities Museum Z 1
He made all four vessels after the inscription for a certain Charops.
literature
- Isabelle Raubitschek : The Potter Menaidas. In: American Journal of Archeology. Volume 69, 1965, p. 174.
- Antony E. Raubitschek , Isabelle K. Raubitschek: Early Boeotian Potters. In: Hesperia. Volume 35, 1966, pp. 154-165.
- Rudolf Wachter : Non-attic Greek vase inscriptions. Oxford 2001, pp. 10-11.
- Eckhard Wirbelauer : Menaidas. In: Rainer Vollkommer (Hrsg.): Künstlerlexikon der Antike . Volume 2: L-Z. Addendum A – K. Saur, Munich / Leipzig 2004, ISBN 3-598-11414-1 , pp. 62–63.
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| SURNAME | Menaidas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Boeotian potter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 7th century BC BC or 6th century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 6th century BC BC or 5th century BC Chr. |