Milonidas

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The front part of the Pinax from the Louvre with the inscription

Milonidas was next Chares and Timonidas the only known by name ancient Greek vase painter who works in its Corinthian - black-style decorated. He worked during the late Corinthian phase (around 575 to 550 BC), his works are reported around the year 550 BC. BC or between 575 and 550 BC Dated.

Milonidas is known today only from two fragments of a small Pinax from the sanctuary of Penteskouphia near Corinth . One of the two parts of the votive plaque is now in the Berlin Collection of Antiquities , the other in the Louvre in Paris . You can see the front part of a team of four, which probably drew Poseidon and Amphitrite from the same place as other Pinakes . The inscription shows Milonidas both as a painter and as a consecrator.

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Remarks

  1. Vollkommer
  2. Information from the Louvre
  3. Inventory number F 51.1
  4. Inventory number MNC 212.