Biblonia

Biblonia

Sign your name across my art

biblonia
Aug 29, 2020
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A fragment of a cup from ancient Ischia (Pithekoussai) inscribed with the artist's name (...-inos), reproduced from Jeffrey M. Hurwit, Artists and Signatures in Ancient Greece (Cambridge, 2015), p. 72

The oldest artist's signature in Europe comes from a little fragment of a krater cup from the island of Ischia off Naples made in the 8th century BC. The P…

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