The Naucratis Painter was a
Laconian vase painter of the mid-sixth century BC.
Naucratis
Naucratis or Naukratis (Ancient Greek: , "Naval Command"; Egyptian: , , , Coptic: ) was a city and trading-post in ancient Egypt, located on the Canopic (western-most) branch of the Nile river, south-east of the Mediterranean sea and the city ...
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
Iota (; uppercase: Ι, lowercase: ι; ) is the ninth letter of the Greek alphabet. It was derived from the Phoenician letter Yodh. Letters that arose from this letter include the Latin I and J, the Cyrillic І (І, і), Yi (Ї, ї), and ...
suggests, moreover, that he was a foreigner in Laconia.
[Gerald P. Schaus, 'A Foreign Vase Painter in Sparta" ''American Journal of Archaeology'' 83.1 (January 1979), pp. 102-106.]
See also
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Corpus vasorum antiquorum
Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum ("corpus of ancient vases"; abbreviated CVA) is an international research project for documentation of ancient ceramics. Its original ideal target content: any ceramic from any ancient location during any archaeological ...
Notes
Further reading
*Lane, E.A., 'Lakonian Vase Painting', ''Annual of the British School at Athens'' 34 (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).
6th-century BC Greek people
Ancient Greek vase painters
Anonymous artists of antiquity
Ancient Laconia
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