Priapus (potter)
Priapus was a Greek potter who lived between about 550 and 530 BC. Was active in Athens .
His signature can be found on a total of five pieces:
- Aryballos in the form of a phallos Boston, Museum of Fine Arts 13,105 [1]
- Fragment of a jug from the Kriton group, Athens, National Museum Akr. 833
- Fragment of a Skyphos Mykonos, Archaeological Museum
- Fragment of a Skyphus Florence, Museo Archeologico
- Fragment of a skyphos London, British Museum (mistakenly inserted into the ribbon shell B 395).
Priapus is to be counted among the potters of the so-called minor masters .
literature
- John D. Beazley : Attic Black-figure Vase-painters , Oxford 1956, p. 170. 446
- John D. Beazley: Paralipomena. Additions to Attic black-figure vase-painters and to Attic red-figure vase-painters , Oxford 1971, p. 71.
- Peter Heesen: Priapus. In: Rainer Vollkommer (Hrsg.): Künstlerlexikon der Antike . Over 3800 artists from three millennia. Nikol, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-937872-53-7 , p. 320.
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SURNAME | Priapus |
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. |