96 TONES. — CHARACTERISTICS OF BRYGOS. 
Wernicke, in his Griechische Vasen mit Liebling snamen , p. 15, recognizing the resemblance 
between the styles of these artists gives our vase, No. 19 to Hieron. It is likewise noted 
by Reisch in the Fiihrer offentl Samml. Horn, p. 231, that Hieron, Duris, Euphronios, and 
Brygos are intimately related in matters of style. This same opinion is to be found 
in Harrison andMacCall, Greek Vase Paintings, p. 23. But in none of these instances 
is the relation extended to the " Master with the Twig " and the " Master with the 
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Bald Head " as our investigation warrants. 
These associations would fix the approximate date of Brygos between 500 b. a, 
the probable earlier date of Euphronios, and 480 B. c. That Brygos was active 
before the latter date is proved by the discovery of fragments of his vases in the 
debris of the Acropolis occasioned by the Persians when they pillaged Athens. The 
fragments are those given by Winter 1 in the Jb. d. Arch. Inst. 1887, pp. 230 and 231 
and the so-called Ross fragment (Ross, Archaol. Aufs. pi. X). 2 It is possible to date 
Brygos even more closely, if we associate the name Orsimenes, which appears on the 
Iliupersis kylix, with the one occurring on a vase by Euthymides (Munich, No. 
374, Klein, Mcistcrsig. p. 195, 3, and Hoppin, Euthymides, pi. 2). Kretschmer (Die 
Grieehischen Vaseninsehriften, p. 180), in considering this name as it appears on the Iliu- 
persis kylix, leaves the choice open. It may be, he says, either 'O^SaH 'O^M>^], 
or 'Opa-ifiilvr),]. The second name does not appear in literature (Urlichs, Beitrage zur 
Kunstgeschichte, p. 65). The first, which is the name of the brother of Akamas, 
might stand. But the letters, as they appear on the vase, point to the third reading, 
and inasmuch as this name does occur on a vase by Euthymides, it seems reasonable 
to choose this reading. Klein accepts this form of the word in his Meistersignaturen, 
V- 175. Hoppin places the date of the florescence of the style of Euthymides at 
500 
y 
If then we look on the name Orsimenes as a k<A6, name, and accept 
period covered by the KaXos name, Brygos would be dated 
neighborhood of 490 b. c. - probably between 490 and 485 b. c. His more developed 
style won d demand that he should be placed somewhat later than Euthymides, and 
so we set him at the outer limit of the period covered by the -love name" 
lhe question now arises whether Brygos worked enti 
with 
invariably 
It is to be noted that on all of his 
ely 
gned vases his «. 5 
eTTOivcrep, — as is now the tendency 
If now we are to distinguish between the words iypaxjjev and 
would mean that Bryg 
was a maker a potter, and not a painter. If this i s so , we might expect the name of 
-worker to appear on some of his vases. Such a signature does appear on a frag- 
ung 
{op. cit. p. 229) 
