Theozotos

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Theozotos was a Greek potter who worked in the middle of the 6th century BC. Chr. In Athens .

Only one signed vase is known of him, a black-figure kyathos from Vulci , now in Paris , Louvre F 69. It depicts the genre scene of a shepherd with two dogs tending a fifteen-headed herd of goats. According to the name, the potter could have been a Boeoter and the iconography of the depiction is reminiscent of that of the Boeotian Gamedes painter .

literature

  • John D. Beazley : Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters , Oxford 1956, p. 349.
  • John D. Beazley: Paralipomena. Additions to Attic black-figure vase-painters and to Attic red-figure vase-painters , Oxford 1971, p. 159.
  • Antony E. Raubitschek , Isabelle Raubitschek : Early Boeotian Potters. In: Hesperia 35, 1966, p. 160, plate 52 cd.
  • Karl Kilinski II: Boeotian black figure vase painting of the archaic period , Mainz 1990, p. 4.
  • Rainer Vollkommer : Theozotos. In: Rainer Vollkommer (Hrsg.): Künstlerlexikon der Antike . Volume 2: L-Z. Addendum A – K. Saur, Munich / Leipzig 2004, ISBN 3-598-11414-1 , p. 461.

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SURNAME Theozotos
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.