Menon (potter)

Menon was a Greek potter who worked in Athens around 530 BC. Chr.

He is best known for his signature on a red-figure abdominal amphora in Philadelphia , University Museum Inv. 5349, the painting of which is attributed to the painter Psiax . Before the name of the Psiax was known by his signature, he was called Menon painter after the potter .

literature

John D. Beazley : Attic Black-figure Vase-painters . Oxford 1956, p. 292.
John D. Beazley: Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters , 2nd. ed. Oxford 1963, pp. 6-7.
Beth Cohen , in: Metropolitan Museum Journal 26, 1991, p. 64 Figs. 22-23.
Thomas Mannack : Menon (I). In: Rainer Vollkommer (Hrsg.): Künstlerlexikon der Antike . Volume 2: L-Z. Addendum A – K. Saur, Munich / Leipzig 2004, ISBN 3-598-11414-1 , p. 70.

personal data
SURNAME	Menon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Greek 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.