( fl 550 BC or later). Greek sculptor. The son of Mikkiades and father of the sculptors Bupalos and Athenis, Archermos was credited with creating the first winged figure of Nike (Victory) in Greek art; his works were apparently to be seen on Delos and Lesbos. A column signed by Archermos, that may have supported a Nike, was dedicated on the Athenian Acropolis in the late 6th century BC, and a badly damaged statue base from Delos has a much-restored inscription (written in the script of the island of Paros) suggesting that Mikkiades and his son Archermos dedicated the statue to Artemis after they had left their homeland of Chios. A statue found in the same general area as the base, and like it datable to c. 550 BC, is the so-called (and originally winged) Nike of Delos (Athens, N. Archaeol. Mus.; see DELOS, fig. 4). It is, however, not absolutely certain that the Nike belongs to the base, or, if it does, that it stood there alone. Assuming the Nike is both the work and the dedication of Mikkiades and Archermos, and that the Archermos who signed the late 6th-century BC Acropolis column is the same man, there is an unusually large chronological overlap between the careers of Archermos and his sons Bupalos and Athenis, who were themselves apparently active as early as c. 540 BC. Finally, it has been forcefully argued that the Nike of Delos is not Nike at all, but Artemis, who can also appear winged in Archaic art, and that Archermos first gave Nike her wings while working in Athens, where, with other well-known island sculptors, he enjoyed the commissions of the local aristocracy.

• Archermos of Chios
  • Bupalos and Athenis
  • Chios, §1: History
  • Delos, §2(i): Archaic sculpture