Thrax (potter)

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Thrax was a Greek potter who worked in the mid-6th century BC. In Athens . The name indicates a possible origin from Thrace .

He is only known by his signature on a ribbon bowl in Taranto, Museo Nazionale IG 6222. He is one of the minor masters . It shows a scene with a hoplite and a team of four and could possibly represent an apobatism race . Very similar representations can be found on Hermogenes' vases .

literature

  • John D. Beazley : Attic Black-figure Vase-painters , Oxford 1956, p. 178.
  • John D. Beazley: Paralipomena. Additions to Attic black-figure vase-painters and to Attic red-figure vase-painters , Oxford 1971, p. 74.
  • Catalogo del Museo Nazionale Archeologico di Taranto I.3, Atleti e Guerrieri, Tradizioni aristocratiche , Taranto 1997, p. 256.
  • Peter Heesen: Thrax. In: Rainer Vollkommer (Hrsg.): Künstlerlexikon der Antike . Volume 2: L-Z. Addendum A – K. Saur, Munich / Leipzig 2004, ISBN 3-598-11414-1 , p. 465.

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SURNAME Thrax
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.