Sokles Ancient Greek: Σοκλῆς 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[1]
- Bolligen, Collection Rolf Blatter
- Daskyleion, Excavation E 108.107
- Madrid, Museo Arqueologico Nacional 10947 (L 56)[1]
- Malibu (CA), J. Paul Getty Museum S.80.AE.60[2]
- Oxford, Ashmolean Museum 1929.498[1]
- Switzerland, private collection
- Taranto, Museo Archeologico Nazionale 20910[1]
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.[1] Whether that craftsman is identical with the black-figure potter Sokles remains unclear.[1] The signature may also not be authentic.
References
Sources
- Beazley, John Davidson (1978). Attic black-figure vase-painters. New York: Hacker Art Books. pp. 172–173. ISBN 978-0-87817-191-0.
- Blatter, Rolf (2021). Beyer, Andreas; Savoy, Bénédicte; Tegethoff, Wolf (eds.). "Sokles (1)". Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon – Internationale Künstlerdatenbank – Online. Berlin, New York: K. G. Saur. Full access available to users of The Wikipedia Library.
- 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.