98 TONES. — CHARACTERISTICS OF BRTGOS. 
does not occur on monuments much earlier than 460 b. c. But this would militate little 
against its frequency in handwriting and in such inscriptions as appear on vases. Its 
occurrence on the Uiupersis kylix would have a tendency, of course, to draw it away 
from 490 b. c. 
Of the signed vases, five have the signature on the handle, two are signed on the 
edge of the foot, and in one case the place of signature is uncertain. In the early part 
of this century the spelling of the name of our artist troubled archaeologists. Thus 
in the Arch. Zeti. 1843, p. 141, the name is read as Prylos, and in the Bull, d. List, for 
thoyear 1843, on p. 71, we find a discussion of the Uiupersis wherein the name is 
given as Brylos. The latter reading appears also in 1856 in an article by De Witte in 
Ann. d. Inst. p. 81. Here, in treating of the kylix with the Judgment of Paris 
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{Man. d. Inst. 1856, pi. 14), he says that the vases with the signature of Bryl 
i. In speaking of another vase, in the collection of the Due de Luynes, he suggests 
the possibility of restoring the incomplete name on the handle as Bryaxis. On p. 86 
of the Ann. d. Inst for 1856, De Witte rightly recognizes the name to be Brygos. 2 
From the name Brygos itself attempts have been made to locate the home of the 
artist. Kretschmer (Gnech. Vaseninsch. p. 75) says that Brygos probably came of the 
Thracian stock of the Brigoi. Strabo (XII, 550) gives Brygoi, Bryges, and Phryges as 
equivalent one to the other, 3 and Hesychius (s. Bp^) states that according. to some 
the Bryges are the same as Phryges. The fact that the name Brygos is similar to 
Bryges may point to a northern origin for our artist. But nothing more definite than 
this can be drawn from the resemblance of the two names. 
Not only from the spelling of the name does it appear that Brygos was not an 
Athenian, but certain peculiarities also of orthography occurring on a vase, 4 which, 
hough unsigned, belongs to him, point to a non-Attic origin. The vase is of exquisite 
technique, and belongs well in the best period of the career of Brygos. The decora- 
tions are as follows : On the interior is represented a girl dancing before a youth who 
reclines on a couch. In the field is an inscription (Fig. 34. PiUpos should be retro- 
grade).^ On the exterior, side A, are represented a bearded man and a youth, reclining 
Before the man stands a girl playing a flute, and at the foot of the couch 
1. tuT) Slt ? !° man * At ^ left near a C0lu ™ stods - boy with a lyre. In 
the field before the boy is an inscription (Fig. 35), over the youth is another (Fig, 36), 
and above the man is still another (Fig. 37). On side B is a similar scene with a nude 
JNo. 18 of our list of unsigned vases. 
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