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Lydos
( fl c. 565–c. 535 BC). Greek vase painter. Active in Athens, he was among the finest Black-figure vase painters, and more than 130 vases of various shapes and sizes are attributed to him, though only two are signed. One is a lebes from the Acropolis (Athens, N. Archaeol. Mus., no. 607), the other a Type B amphora (Paris, Louvre, F 29). On both vases the artist’s name has a definite article: ‘the Lydian’ was clearly his nickname, indicating some direct or indirect connection with Lydia. The inscription on the lebes further suggests that Lydos was a potter too. However, he also decorated vases for other potters, including Nikosthenes, Kolchos, Epitimos, and probably Amasis and Sotes. His style owed something to the workshop of the Ptoon Painter, to Kleitias and to the painter of Acropolis 606.
Part of the Vase painters family
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