Sikelos


Panathenaic award amphora in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1978.11.13), signed by Nikias as potter and Sikanos as vase painter

Sikelos (Σίκελος) was an ancient Attic vase painter of the black-figure style in the middle of the 6th century BC. Chr.

Sikelos is known by name because of an inscription ΣΙΚΕΛΟΣ ΕΓΡΑΦΣΕΝ (Sikelos painted it) on a Panathenaic prize amphora , as a potter it was signed by Nicias . It is one of the few painter's signatures on this type of vase; Sikelos is the oldest known painter of a price amphora, the amphora was used in the period around 560/550 BC. Dated. The vase was found in Taranto . As was common at the time, the obverse shows Athena between two pillars. In addition, there is the usual inscription for such vases: ΤΟΝ ΑΘΕΝΕΘΕΝ ΑΘΛΟΝ ([one] of the prizes from Athens) . The reverse shows a group of wrestlers framed by a coach and another wrestler. Two further fragments of Panathenaic price amphoras have so far been assigned to Sikelos on the basis of stylistic studies. The name Sikelos indicates that the vase painter came from Sicily ; possibly he was a metropolis .

literature

Mary B. Moore : "Nikias Made Me". An Early Panathenaic Prize Amphora in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In: Metropolitan Museum Journal 34 (1999), pp. 37-56.
Martina Seifert : Sikelos. In: Rainer Vollkommer (editor): Künstlerlexikon der Antike . Over 3800 artists from three millennia. Nikol, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-937872-53-7 , p. 821.

Web links

Commons : Sikelos - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Today in the National Archaeological Museum of Naples inventory number 112848

personal data
SURNAME	Sikelos
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Σίκελος
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	antique Attic vase painter
DATE OF BIRTH	6th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	6th century BC BC or 5th century BC Chr.

[1] Today in the National Archaeological Museum of Naples inventory number 112848