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Hartwig was the first writer to give a detailed account of the important painter who for the sake of convenience may be called Kleophrades. Nine vases are assigned by the author of Meisterschalen to an artist whom he terms ‘Amasis II.’; but the name under which he grouped them rests upon an untenable restoration of the fragmentary inscriptionon the foot of a cup in the Cabinet des Médailles. The last and broken letter can only be a and we cannot therefore restore Ἄμασις ἔγραφαεν the choice lies between Ἀμάσιος ὑύς and Ἄμασις καλός, and of these the former, which is Six's reading, is probably preferable. In any case the manufacturer from whose workshop the cup came was called Kleophrades.
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Hartwig was the first writer to give a detailed account of the important painter who for the sake of convenience may be called Kleophrades.
Nine vases are assigned by the author of Meisterschalen to an artist whom he terms ‘Amasis II.
’; but the name under which he grouped them rests upon an untenable restoration of the fragmentary inscriptionon the foot of a cup in the Cabinet des Médailles.
The last and broken letter can only be a and we cannot therefore restore Ἄμασις ἔγραφαεν the choice lies between Ἀμάσιος ὑύς and Ἄμασις καλός, and of these the former, which is Six's reading, is probably preferable.
In any case the manufacturer from whose workshop the cup came was called Kleophrades.
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