Mnesiades

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Mnesiades ( Greek  Μνεσιάδης ) was a Greek potter who lived around 550 to 540 BC. Was active in Athens .

A signed work by him is known, the fragment of a hydria in the Herbert A. Cahn collection , Basel Inv. HC 859 (formerly in Cairo, Riaz collection, currently on loan to the British Museum, London ). It depicts a warrior with a shield in the knee-run diagram to the left, behind it the potter's signature "ΜΝΕΣΙΑΔΕΣ ΕΠΟΙΕΣΕΝ".

The retrograde inscription "ΜΝΕΣ [..." may also be added as a remnant of another pottery inscription by Mnesiades. It can be found on the fragment of a Panathenaic price amphora from the Athens Acropolis (Athens, National Museum Akr. 921), painted in the manner of the Princeton painter .

Together with the potter Andokides, Mnesiades donated a bronze statue on the Athens Acropolis , the base of which has been preserved with an inscription ( IG ² No. 627): "Μ] ΝΕΣΙΑΔΕΣ ΚΕΡΑΜΕΥΣ ΜΕ ΚΑΙ ΑΝΔΟΚΙΔΕΣ ΑΝΕΘΕΚΕΝ". This dedication, one of the few by potters on the Acropolis, shows the potter's high social prestige.

literature

  • John D. Beazley : Attic Black-figure Vase-painters . Oxford 1956, p. 314.
  • John D. Beazley: Paralipomena. Additions to Attic black-figure vase-painters and to Attic red-figure vase-painters , Oxford 1971, p. 136.
  • Bettina Kreuzer : Early draftsmen 1500-500 BC Egyptian, Greek and Etruscan vase fragments from the HA Cahn Basel collection , Freiburg 1992, p. 64 no. 64.
  • Dyfri Williams , in: Annie Verbanck-Pierard, Didier Viviers (eds.): Culture et cité. L'avènement d'Athènes à l'époque archaïque . Actes du colloque international organisé à l'Université Libre de Bruxelles du 25 au 27 avril 1991, Paris 1995, pp. 147–148 Fig. 3.
  • Thomas Mannack : Mnesiades. In: Rainer Vollkommer (Hrsg.): Künstlerlexikon der Antike . Volume 2: L-Z. Addendum A – K. Saur, Munich / Leipzig 2004, ISBN 3-598-11414-1 , p. 89.
  • Mary B. Moore : Andokides and a curious Attic Black-figured amphora . In: Metropolitan Museum Journal 36, 2001, pp. 22-23.

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personal data
SURNAME Mnesiades
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.