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Amasis Painter
( fl c. 560–c. 515 BC). Greek vase painter. He is named after eight Attic Black-figure vases decorated by one artist and signed by the potter Amasis. These signatures only appeared, however, from c. 550 BC, a decade after his earliest attributed work, the alabastron from the Athenian Agora (Athens, Agora Mus., P 12628). The Amasis Painter was a prolific artist, and over 130 examples of his work survive. He decorated numerous shapes, ranging from one-piece amphorae and neck amphorae, often with unusual details, to small, exquisite pieces, such as oinochoai, lekythoi, cups and rare shapes such as the aryballos and the mastoid.
Part of the Vase painters family
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