Paideros (Koroplast)

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Paideros ( ancient Greek Παιδέρως ) was a Greek Koroplast who worked in Myrina in Asia Minor in the second half of the first century .

He is only known from his signature on a clay statuette of a draped youth. The statuette is now in the Cabinet des Médailles of the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris .

literature

  • Dominique Kassab: Statuettes en terre cuite de Myrina. Corpus des signatures, monogrammes, lettres et signes . Paris 1988, No. 53 (4), 1 ( Bibliothèque de l'Institut français d'études anatoliennes d'Istanbul , 29). ( Inscription online ).
  • Rainer Vollkommer : Paideros (2) . In: Derselbe (Hrsg.): Künstlerlexikon der Antike . Volume 2: L-Z. Addendum A – K. Saur, Munich / Leipzig 2004, ISBN 3-598-11414-1 , p. 609.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Inventory number Froehner VI, 464.
personal data
SURNAME Paideros
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Παιδέρως
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek Koroplast
DATE OF BIRTH 1st century
DATE OF DEATH 1st century or 2nd century