Menophanes
Menophanes ( Greek Μηνοφάνης ) was an ancient Greek sculptor .
Menophanes, son of a Lysanias, came from Sinope . He worked in the first half of the 1st century BC. In Halicarnassus . Today he is only known because of the signature on a grave monument found in Bitez . The inscription stone is now in the Museum of Bodrum . Menophanes is next to the 3rd century BC. The sculptors Euandros and Klerias were the only other known sculptors of antiquity who came from Sinope.
literature
- Martin Dennert : Menophanes. In: Rainer Vollkommer (editor): Künstlerlexikon der Antike . Over 3800 artists from three millennia. Nikol, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-937872-53-7 , p. 506.
- David H. French: A Sinopean Sculptor at Halicarnassus. In: Epigraphica Anatolica. Journal of Epigraphy and Historical Geography of Anatolia. Volume 4, 1984, pp. 75-84.
Remarks
- ↑ Ligia Ruscu: Sinopeans abroad and Foreigners at Sinope. In: Ancient West & East. Volume 7, 2008, pp. 81-106, here pp. 81-83 ( online ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Menophanes |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Μενοφάνες (ancient Greek) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | ancient Greek sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 2nd century BC BC or 1st century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1st century BC BC or 1st century |