Sakonides

Fragment of a peripheral shell : a woman's head in the red-figure style anticipating outline drawing. Metropolitan Museum of Art (51.125.10).

Sakonides ( ancient Greek Σακωνίδης ) was an Attic vase painter of the black-figure style . He was around 550 to 530 BC. Active in Athens and is one of the late minor masters .

Sakonides almost exclusively painted small master bowls, many of which he signed. It often decorated its bowls on both sides with women's heads in profile, as is also known from other contemporary painters. He is similar to the painter Lydos , some researchers even wanted to identify him with this. Sakonides worked with several potters: Eucheiros , Tlempolemos , Hischylos and Kaulos .

literature

Andreas Rumpf : Sakonides , Leipzig 1937 ( Research on Ancient Ceramics Series I: Pictures of Greek Vases. Volume 8)
John D. Beazley : Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters , Oxford 1956, pp. 170-172
John Boardman : Black-Figure Vases from Athens. A manual (= cultural history of the ancient world . Volume 1). Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1977, ISBN 3-8053-0233-9 , pp. 66-67.
Ricardo Olmos Romera : Sakonides. In: Rainer Vollkommer (editor): Künstlerlexikon der Antike . Volume 2: L-Z. Addendum A – K. Saur, Munich / Leipzig 2004, ISBN 3-598-11414-1 , p. 359.

personal data
SURNAME	Sakonides
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Attic vase painter
DATE OF BIRTH	6th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	6th century BC BC or 5th century BC Chr.