page_title: Amasis (potter)
hierarchical_section_title: Amasis (potter)
caption_attribution_description: English: Amasis' signature (ΑΜΑΣΙΣ ΜΕΠΟΙΕΣΕΝ), rotated 90° anticlockwise, detail from a scene representing Herakles entering Olympus. Attic black-figure olpe, 550–530 BC. Français&#160;: Signature d'Amasis (ΑΜΑΣΙΣ ΜΕΠΟΙΕΣΕΝ), tourné à 90° dans le sens inverse des aiguilles d'une montre, détail d'une scène représentant l'entrée d'Héraclès dans l'Olympe. Olpè attique à figures noires du potier Amasis (signature) et du Peintre d'Amasis, 550-530 av. J.-C.
context_page_description: Amasis was an ancient Attic potter, active in Athens between 560/550 and 530/520 BC.
  Amasis’s pottery workshop also employed a well-known painter, who is conventionally named the Amasis Painter after the potter, and generally considered as one of the best Archaic vase painters. His works are mostly black-figure, but some red-figure vase paintings by him do occur. He and Exekias produced the first major painted amphorae with a narrative image on front and back, respectively.
  Famous works:
  Amphora: Satyrs harvesting grapes
  Amphora: Dionysos with a kantharos and youths with slain hares and foxes;
context_section_description: Amasis was an ancient Attic potter, active in Athens between 560/550 and 530/520 BC.
  Amasis’s pottery workshop also employed a well-known painter, who is conventionally named the Amasis Painter after the potter, and generally considered as one of the best Archaic vase painters. His works are mostly black-figure, but some red-figure vase paintings by him do occur. He and Exekias produced the first major painted amphorae with a narrative image on front and back, respectively. 
  Famous works:
  Amphora: Satyrs harvesting grapes (Würzburg, Martin-von-Wagner-Museum)
  Amphora: Dionysos with a kantharos and youths with slain hares and foxes; (Munich, Staatl. Antikensammlungen)
caption: Signature by Amasis on an olpe, 550-540 BC; Paris, Louvre F 30
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