Sokles (potter)

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Sokles was a Greek potter active in the middle of the 6th century BC. In Athens .

The following signed Kleinmeister bowls or fragments thereof are known from him, all of which were decorated by the Sokles painter :

  • Berlin, Antikensammlung F 1781
  • Bolligen, Rolf Blatter Collection
  • Daskyleion , excavation E 108.107
Madrid 10947
  • Madrid, Museo Arqueologico Nacional 10947 (L 56)
  • Malibu (CA), J. Paul Getty Museum 86.AE.158
  • Oxford, Ashmolean Museum 1929.498
  • Switzerland, private collection
  • Taranto, Museo Archeologico Nazionale 20910

He is one of the little masters .

On a red-figure plate in Paris, Musee du Louvre CA 2181, which was painted by a painter near the Paseas , is the signature of a potter Soklees. It is not clear whether this is identical to the black-figure potter; the signature may also not be genuine.

literature

  • John D. Beazley : Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters , Oxford 1956, p. 172.
  • John D. Beazley: Attic Red-figure Vase-painters , 2nd ed. Oxford 1963, p. 164.
  • John D. Beazley: Paralipomena. Additions to Attic black-figure vase-painters and to Attic red-figure vase-painters , Oxford 1971, p. 72.
  • Kutalmış Görkay: Attic Black-Figure Pottery from Daskyleion. In: Studies on ancient Asia Minor IV, Asia Minor Studies 34, Bonn 1999, Pl. 5, 47.
  • Rolf Blatter: Sokles. In: Rainer Vollkommer (Hrsg.): Künstlerlexikon der Antike . Volume 2: L-Z. Addendum A – K. Saur, Munich / Leipzig 2004, ISBN 3-598-11414-1 , p. 404.
personal data
SURNAME Sokles
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.