Amasis (potter)

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 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, Staatliche Antikensammlungen)