Pythodoros (Koroplast)

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Pythodoros ( ancient Greek Πυθόδωρος ) was a Greek Koroplast who was active in Myrina in Asia Minor in the second half of the 1st century .

Pythodorus is known from a number of clay statuettes found in the necropolis of Myrina, he was one of the most productive coroplasters from Myrina during the Roman Empire . In some of his signatures he describes himself as the son of Menophilos, stylistic features of his work suggest that he was the son of the coroplast Menophilos , who also worked in Myrina .

His work is characterized by the variety of motifs, which is unusual for the mostly serially produced myrinic coroplasty. Several statuettes of Eros - Harpocrates , Apollo of Gryneion , an Eros with a mirror of Aphrodite Anadyomene with Eros and an Aphrodite on a dolphin have been preserved, as well as individual specimens of an Apollo with a kithara and a draped ephebe . In addition, a number of fragments have been preserved, which, however, cannot be clearly assigned to a motif.

literature

  • Dominique Kassab: Statuettes en terre cuite de Myrina. Corpus des signatures, monogrammes, lettres et signes . Paris 1988, No. 55-57. (Bibliothèque de l'Institut français d'études anatoliennes d'Istanbul, 29).
  • Rainer Vollkommer : Pythodoros (III) . In: Rainer Vollkommer (Hrsg.): Künstlerlexikon der Antike . Over 3800 artists from three millennia. Nikol, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-937872-53-7 , pp. 775-776.

Remarks

  1. ^ National Archaeological Museum, Athens , inventory number 4952 ( inscription ); Louvre Paris, inventory number Myr 429 ( inscription ).
  2. ^ Louvre Paris, inventory number Myr 274 ( inscription ) and two with unknown whereabouts ( inscription 1 , 2 ).
  3. ^ National Archaeological Museum, Athens, inventory number 4993 ( inscription ); Louvre Paris, inventory number Myrina 835 ( inscription ).
  4. ^ Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, inventory number V 1569 ( inscription ).
  5. ^ Rijksmuseum van Oudheden Leiden, inventory number S 444; Louvre Paris, inventory numbers Myr 430 and Myr 459.
  6. ↑ Privately owned
  7. ^ Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, inventory number LKA 995 ( inscription ).
personal data
SURNAME Pythodorus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Πυθόδωρος
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek Koroplast
DATE OF BIRTH 1st century BC BC or 1st century
DATE OF DEATH 1st century