Naucratis Painter

Sphinx. Tondo from a Laconian black-figure cup by the Naucratis Painter, ca. 570 BC, Louvre

The Naucratis Painter was a Laconian vase painter of the mid-sixth century BC. Naucratis was a Greek trading post ( emporion ) in Egypt. Two fragments of a kylix found in the Demeter Sanctuary, Cyrene, show that the Naucratis Painter was literate, and the form of a three-stroke iota suggests, moreover, that he was a foreigner in Laconia. ^[1]

See also

• Corpus vasorum antiquorum

Notes

1. Gerald P. Schaus, 'A Foreign Vase Painter in Sparta" American Journal of Archaeology83.1 (January 1979), pp. 102-106.

Further reading

• Lane, E.A., 'Lakonian Vase Painting', Annual of the British School at Athens34 (1933–34) 99–189.
• Pipili, M., Laconian Iconography (1987).
• Stibbe, C.M., Lakonische Vasenmaler des sechsten Jahrhunderts vor Christus (Amsterdam, 1972).
• Stibbe, C.M., Laconian Drinking Vessels and Other Open Shapes (Amsterdam, 1994).