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.

personal data
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.