Pamphilos (gem cutter)
Intaglio with Achilles playing music
Intaglio with the head of Medusa, possibly modern forgery
Pamphilos ( ancient Greek Πάμφιλος ) was a Greek gem cutter who lived around 50 BC. Was active.
He is known for his signature on a intaglio of amethyst on which the hero Achilles while making music with the lyre is represented. Achilles is sitting on a rock and is surrounded by weapons. This is a common motif, which Pamphilos implemented in an outstanding way on a gem. The stone is in the collection of the Cabinet des Médailles in Paris .
A number of other gems with the signature of Pamphilus are known, but all of them turned out to be modern forgeries. Only in the case of an amethyst with the head of Medusa , also kept in the Cabinet des Médailles, is it not clear whether it is a work by Pamphilus or a forgery.
Stylistically, Pamphilos is close to the gem cutter Apollonios, who was also active at the same time .
literature
- Johannes Sieveking : Pamphilos 32. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume XVIII, 3, Stuttgart 1949, Col. 352.
- Attilio Stazio: Pamphilos 2 . In: Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli (ed.): Enciclopedia dell'Arte Antica, Classica e Orientale , Volume 5. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1963.
- Rainer Vollkommer : Pamphilos (II) . In: Rainer Vollkommer (Hrsg.): Künstlerlexikon der Antike . Over 3800 artists from three millennia. Nikol, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-937872-53-7 , p. 615.
Remarks
- ↑ Inventory number 1815
- ↑ Inventory number 58.1526bis
- ↑ See Peter Zazoff : The ancient gems . Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-08896-1 , p. 285.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pamphilus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Πάμφιλος (Greek) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek gem cutter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 2nd century BC BC or 1st century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1st century BC BC or 1st century |