Metra (...)
Metra (…) ( Greek Μητρα […] ) was a Greek coroplast who worked in Myrina in the 1st century AD .
Metra (...) is known for incomplete signatures on three types of clay statuettes . Two statuettes of Tyche are now in the Louvre in Paris , as well as a statuette of Dionysus with Eros and a panther. A second such Dionysus figure is in the Istanbul Archaeological Museum . The third type of statuette shows a woman in a robe and is privately owned.
literature
- Rainer Vollkommer : Metra (...) . In: Rainer Vollkommer (Hrsg.): Künstlerlexikon der Antike . Over 3800 artists from three millennia. Nikol, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-937872-53-7 , p. 516.
- Dominique Kassab: Statuettes en terre cuite de Myrina. Corpus des signatures, monogrammes, lettres et signes . Paris 1988, nos. 51-52. (Bibliothèque de l'Institut français d'études anatoliennes d'Istanbul, 29.)
Remarks
- ↑ Inventory numbers CA 3670 & Ly 1653. ( inscription )
- ↑ Inventory number Myr 179. ( inscription )
- ↑ Inventory number M 2772. ( inscription )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Metra (...) |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Μητρα (...) (Greek) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek Koroplast |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1st century BC BC or 1st century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1st century or 2nd century |