SOPHILOS. Bakir,Güven. — Sophilos. Ein Beitrag zu seinem Stil.

Mainz am Rhein, Philipp von Zabern, [1981]. XX,84 pp. 42 text-ills & 90 plts with 194 b./w. ills. Orig. hardcover (brown cloth with gilt lettering). Large 8vo. (Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften. Kommission für antike Keramik, Keramikforschungen IV).This important scholarly study is a key work on the oldest known Attic vase painter, Sophilos. The book provides an in-depth analysis of the style, technique, and chronology of Sophilos's work. It contains an extensive catalogue of all vases and fragments attributed to Sophilos. It continues to serve as a fundamental reference work for researchers and students studying ancient Greek ceramics and the development of the Attic black-figure style. - Sophilos was a renowned Greek vase painter and potter from the early Archaic period (he worked in Athens around 580-570 BC). He is the oldest known Greek vase painter whose name has been preserved on his work (he signed his vases with the text "Sophilos painted me"). He was known for his innovative mythological scenes (such as the marriage of Peleus and Thetis) on black-figure pottery. - Text in German.