Psoleas

Psoleas ( Greek Πσολεας, ΠΣΟΛΕΑΣ ) is the presumed name of an ancient Attic potter who lived in the middle of the 6th century BC. Worked.

The name is only known from the unsecured reading of a fragmented signature on a fragment of a siana bowl that was painted in the black-figure style . John D. Beazley suggested adding the signature […] ΟΛΕΑΣ EΠ […] to zu EΠOIEI. The classical philologist Cornelis Jord Ruijgh proposed a reading in 1983 as ΒΟΛΕΑΣ, Bouleas . Ruijgh's suggestion is supported by the frequency of the name Bouleas in the potter's lifetime.

The shell fragment is found around the year 560 BC. Dated. It was found in 1937 during the American excavations on the Agora of Athens and is now part of the collection of the Agora Museum (inventory number P 10203).

literature

John D. Beazley : Attic Black-figure Vase-painters. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1956, p. 62.
Herman AG Brijder : Siana cups. Volume 1: The Siana cups and Komast cups (= Allard-Pierson Series. Studies in Ancient Civilization. Volume 4). Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam 1983, p. 24. 142 (here the reading by Ruijgh). 246 no.120 pl. 26f.
Rainer Vollkommer : [Ps] oleas. In: Rainer Vollkommer (Hrsg.): Künstlerlexikon der Antike . Volume 2: L-Z. Addendum A – K. Saur, Munich / Leipzig 2004, ISBN 3-598-11414-1 , p. 326.
Henry Rudolph Immerwahr : Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions . 2009, No. 414 ( digitized version ).

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SURNAME	Psoleas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Bouleas (alternative reading); Πσολεας; […] ΟΛΕΑΣ (Greek)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	ancient greek potter
DATE OF BIRTH	6th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	6th century BC Chr.