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[German version] (Τιμονίδας/ Timonídas). Significant painter of polychrome Corinthian pottery (Corinthian vases), c. 580 BC, of whose work a clay bottle and a clay tablet survive. Both have a painter signature, which is rare in Corinth; the clay tablet furthermore has the father's name, Bias. On the clay bottle, Achilles is lying in wait for Troilus; in addition to Polyxene and Priam there are other Trojans with name labels (Athens, NM 277; from Cleonae). One side of the fragmentary clay tablet shows a hunte…

[German version] Middle Corinthian vase-painter from around 580/570 BC, who specialized in pyxides and oinochoai but also painted neck-amphoras and hydriai; generally with friezes of animals and riders. The pyxis in Munich (SA, so-called Dodwell Pyxis) with the Calydonian boar hunt and other mythical figures (the accompanying names are partly incorrect) is outstanding, as are also two careful friezes on the olpe in Rome (VG): revellers dancing around a krater, and Hercules fighting the Hydra. In o…

[German version] (Θηρικλῆς; Thēriklês). Corinthian potter, fullest discussion. in Ath. 11,470e-472e. At the time of Aristophanes [3] ( c. 455-385 BC) T. is supposed to have made in clay a cup shape with a glossy black surface, also imitated in other materials (Theophr. H. plant. 5,3,2) and much praised in ancient literature; the term 'Thericlean' ( thēríkleios) was later used for other pot shapes as well. Steinhart, Matthias (Freiburg) Bibliography A. Blair Brownlee, Antimenean Dinoi, in: J. H. Oakley et al. (eds.), Athenian Potters and Painters, 1997, 517.

[German version] Boeotian potter, active around the middle of the 6th cent. BC, who twice signed a jug now in Paris (LV, inventory no. MNB 501): ΓΑΜΕΔΕΣ ΕΠΟΕΣΕ ( GAMEDES EPOESE). The clover-leaf jug, with its conical body and knurled rim and its high neck divided by a sharply ridged ring design, can be linked to the shape of other Boeotian jugs. The signatures of G. and Polon are the only ones preserved in Boeotian black-figured vase painting. Named after G. is the G.-painter, who painted the jug in the Louvre (shepherd with…

[German version] The black-figured PCV ( c. 70 in number) from the 6th cent. BC were brought together for the first time by A. Rumpf. The PCV closely emulate Chalcidian vase painting, but are also influenced by Corinthian vases and Attic black-figured vases (Vase painting, black-figured). The composition of the clay used for the vessels and an inscription in the Ionic alphabet [1. 155] also reveal dissimilarities with Chalcidian vases. Among the PCV one can differentiate between the Polyphemus group […