Pistoxenos

Pistoxenos ( Greek Πιστόξενος , translated "faithful stranger") was a Greek potter who lived in the first half of the 5th century BC. Was active in Athens . Seven skyphoi and one bowl with his signature are known. He worked in his workshop with several important painters of the red-figure style , including the Pistoxenos painter , named after his pottery , the Syriskos painter , the PS painter and Epiktetos .

Based on the signature Πιστοχσενος Συρισκος εποιεσεν on two skyphoi, Martin Robertson put forward the theory that the potter and painter Syriskos (translated “little Syrian”, identical to the Copenhagen painter ) had given up painting with the name Pistoxenos and only worked as a potter.

Signed vessels

London, British Museum E 139 . Skyphos . Epictetus.
Florence, Museo Archeologico 2 B 2. Fragment of a skyphus.
Brussels, Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire A 11. Skyphos. Syriskos painter .
Paris, Louvre C 108118. Skyphos. Syriskos painter.
Schwerin, State Museum 708 . Skyphos. Pistoxenos painter.
Formerly Capranesi. Shell (lost).
Whitby, Mulgrave Castle, Lord Normanby collection. Bowl. PS painter.
Whitby, Mulgrave Castle, Lord Normanby collection. Shell Skyphus. PS painter.

literature

John D. Beazley : Attic Red-figure Vase-painters . 2nd edition. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1963, p. 1554.
John D. Beazley: Paralipomena . Clarendon Press, Oxford 1971, p. 353.
Juliane Weinig: Pistoxenos . In: Rainer Vollkommer (editor): Künstlerlexikon der Antike . Volume 2: L-Z. Addendum A – K. Saur, Munich / Leipzig 2004, ISBN 3-598-11414-1 , p. 264 (incorrect).

Remarks

↑ Both Whitby, Mulgrave Castle, Lord Normanby Collection.
^ Martin Robertson: Beazley and After . In Münchner Jahrbuch der Bildenden Kunst 27, 1976, pp. 42–43, critically see Dyfri Williams : Potter, Painter and Purchaser . In: Annie Verbanck-Piérard, 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 . Boccard, Paris 1995, ISBN 2-9600094-0-1 , pp. 154-155; John Boardman is also rather skeptical : red-figure vases from Athens. The archaic time (= cultural history of the ancient world , volume 4). Zabern, Mainz 1981, ISBN 3-8053-0234-7 , p. 126; approvingly Philip Sapirstein: Methodology, Bibliography, and Commentary for the Painters in the Study. Online appendix p. 35 to: ders .: Painters, Potters, and the Scale of the Attic Vase-Painting Industry. In: American Journal of Archeology . Volume 117, 2013, pp. 493-510.

personal data
SURNAME	Pistoxenos
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Πιστόξενος
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Greek potter
DATE OF BIRTH	6th century BC BC or 5th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	5th century BC Chr.

[1] Both Whitby, Mulgrave Castle, Lord Normanby Collection.

[2] Martin Robertson: Beazley and After . In Münchner Jahrbuch der Bildenden Kunst 27, 1976, pp. 42–43, critically see Dyfri Williams : Potter, Painter and Purchaser . In: Annie Verbanck-Piérard, 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 . Boccard, Paris 1995, ISBN 2-9600094-0-1 , pp. 154-155; John Boardman is also rather skeptical : red-figure vases from Athens. The archaic time (= cultural history of the ancient world , volume 4). Zabern, Mainz 1981, ISBN 3-8053-0234-7 , p. 126; approvingly Philip Sapirstein: Methodology, Bibliography, and Commentary for the Painters in the Study. Online appendix p. 35 to: ders .: Painters, Potters, and the Scale of the Attic Vase-Painting Industry. In: American Journal of Archeology . Volume 117, 2013, pp. 493-510.