Pamphaios was an
Attic potter active around the end of the 6th century BC.
Pamphaios was the successor of
Nikosthenes
Nikosthenes was a potter of Greek black- and red-figure pottery in the time window 550–510 BC. He signed as the potter on over 120 black-figure vases, but only nine red-figure. Most of his vases were painted by someone else, called Painter ...
in that artist's workshop, and thus took over from one of the most influential and creative potters of antiquity. He probably took over the workshop before 510 BC and continued the tradition of his predecessor by producing typical shapes the latter had developed, such as the
Nikosthenic amphora, the
Nikosthenic pyxis or the
Chalkidian style cup. At times, he developed these shapes further. Unlike Nikostehenes, Pamphaios favoured painters of the
red-figure style, which was at the time replacing the previously dominant technique of
black-figure vase painting. He also continued to employ many of the painters that had worked for Nikosthenes, such as
Oltos
Oltos was a Late Archaic Greek vase painter, active in Athens from 525 BC to 500 BC. About 150 works by him are known. Two pieces, a cup in Berlin ( Antikensammlung F 2264) and a cup in Tarquinia (Museo Nazionale Tarquiniese RC 6848), are sign ...
,
Epiktetos and the
Nikosthenes Painter.
Pamphaios signature survives on more than fifty vases – spelled different ways by various artists, it probably functioned as a trademark on his workshop's products.
hydria
The hydria ( el, ὑδρία; plural hydriai) is a form of Greek pottery from between the late Geometric period (7th century BC) and the Hellenistic period (3rd century BC). The etymology of the word hydria was first noted when it was stamped o ...
'' depicting Athena
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wearing the aegis
The aegis ( ; grc, αἰγίς ''aigís''), as stated in the ''Iliad'', is a device carried by Athena and Zeus, variously interpreted as an animal skin or a shield and sometimes featuring the head of a Gorgon. There may be a connection with a d ...
.
Signed by the potter Pamphaios and the Euphiletos Painter c. 540 BC. Cabinet des Médailles
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, BNF, Paris
Nikosthenic amphora Pamphaios Louvre G3.jpg, The centaur Chiron holding the child Achilles and a hare at the end of a stick, side B of a ca 525–515 BC red-figure Nikosthenic neck-amphora.
File:Cottabos player Louvre CA1585.jpg, Interior of a red-figure '' kylix'' depicting ''kottabos
Kottabos ( grc, κότταβος) was a game of skill played at Ancient Greek and Etruscan symposia (drinking parties), especially in the 6th and 5th centuries BC. It involved flinging wine-lees (sediment) at a target in the middle of the ro ...
'' players.
Signed by Pamphaios, c. 510 BC. Louvre
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(CA 1585).
Bibliography
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John Beazley
Sir John Davidson Beazley, (; 13 September 1885 – 6 May 1970) was a British classical archaeologist and art historian, known for his classification of Attic vases by artistic style. He was Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art at the Un ...
: ''Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters'', Oxford 1956, p.
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John Boardman: ''Schwarzfigurige Vasen aus Athen. Ein Handbuch'', Mainz 1977, , p. 72 f., 116 f., 122
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Ancient Greek potters