Sokles
Sokles was an ancient Greek potter, active in the middle of the 6th century BC, in Athens. The following signed Little-master cups or fragments thereof are known, all of them painted by the Sokles Painter: • Berlin, Antikensammlung F 1781 • Bolligen, Collection Rolf Blatter • Daskyleion, Excavation E 108.107 • Madrid, Museo Arqueologico Nacional 10947 (L 56) • Malibu (CA), J. Paul Getty Museum S.80.AE.60 • Oxford, Ashmolean Museum 1929.498 • Switzerland, private collection • Taranto, Museo Archeologico Nazionale 20910 He belongs to the group of so-called Little masters. A red-figure plate in Paris, Louvre CA 2181, painted in style similar to that of the painter Paseas, is signed by a potter named Soklees.
Sokles
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- 600
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- ceramicist
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- Ancient Greek
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- Beazley, John Davidson. Attic black-figure vase-painters. Hacker Art Books. 172–173. 1978. 978-0-87817-191-0.
- Blatter, Rolf. Sokles (1). Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon – Internationale Künstlerdatenbank – Online. K. G. Saur. 2021.
- John Beazley: Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, 2nd ed. Oxford 1963, p. 164.
- John Beazley: Paralipomena. Additions to Attic black-figure vase-painters and to Attic red-figure vase-painters, Oxford 1971, p. 72.
- Kutalmış Görkay: "Attic Black-Figure Pottery from Daskyleion", in: Studien zum antiken Kleinasien IV, Asia Minor Studien 34, Bonn 1999, Pl. 5, 47.
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