Ergotimos

The "François vase"

Ergotimos (Έργότιμος) was a Greek potter, active in Athens, circa’’ 570-560 BC. His son Eucharios was also a potter, as was a grandson whose name is not known. The following works signed by him are known:

Berlin, Antikensammlung 3151: footless cup
Berlin, Antikensammlung V. I. 4604: 'Gordion cup', from Gordion
Delphi: Fragment of a skyphos or kantharos
Florence, Museo Archeologico Etrusco 4209: volute krater, so-called 'François vase'
London, British Museum and Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum: Fragments of two cups from Naukratis
New York, Metropolitan Museum 31.11.4: Stand

Apart from the cup Berlin 3151, all are painted by the vase painter Klitias.

Bibliography

John Beazley: Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters, Oxford 1956, p. 76-80.
Der neue Pauly IV, 1998, Col. 65 s.v. Ergotimos (Heide Mommsen)
Künstlerlexikon der Antike I, München, Leipzig 2001, p. 214 s.v. Ergotimos (Bettina Kreuzer)

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Ergotimos in Perseus

Pottery of ancient Greece

Wine vessel shapes	Dinos Kotyle Krater Kyathos Psykter Rhyton Skyphos

Tableware	Eye-cup Kantharos Kylix Oenochoe Olpe Patera Pinakion

Perfume, oil, and wedding shapes	Alabastron Aryballos Askos Lebes Gamikos Lekythos Loutrophoros Lydion Pyxis Stirrup jar

Funerary shapes and cultic shapes	Kernos Lekythos Loutrophoros Phiale

Storage shapes	Amphora Hydria Kalathos Kalpis Lebes Pelike Pithos Stamnos

Utilitarian ceramics	Chuta Epinetron Luchnos Situla

Techniques	Bilingual pottery Black-figure Bucchero Red-figure Six's technique Three-phase firing White-ground

Styles	Ancient Greek vase-painting styles

Potters and painters	List of Greek potters List of Greek vase painters List of Little Masters Name vase

Museums noted for pottery	Athens Basel und Ludwig Berlin Bodrum British Edinburgh Getty Heraklion Louvre Thera Ure Vatican Walters

Writers and books	Adolf Furtwängler Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Dietrich von Bothmer Edmond Pottier John Beazley John Boardman Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae

Special topics in Greek pottery	Frying pans Kalos inscription Nikosthenic amphora Panathenaic amphora Symposium Typology

Ergotimos

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