Edinburgh Painter

Edinburgh Painter

Possibly Aias Telamonios and Odysseus fighting over Achilles' weapons, painting by the Edinburgh Painter. White-ground Attic lekythos, ca. 500 BC, from Eretria.
Born Unknown. Named from one of his vases in the Edinburgh Museum.
Before 545 BC
Probably Athens
Nationality Athenian
Known for Vase painting
Movement Black-figure style

The Edinburgh Painter was an Attic black-figure vase painter, active around 500 BC. His speciality was white-ground lekythoi painted in the black-figure techniques.

His real name is unknown. His conventional name is derived from his name vase in Edinburgh, National Museums of Scotland 1956.436.

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