Sokles

Who is Sokles?

Sokles was an ancient Greek potter, active in the middle of the 6th century BC, in Athens. The following signed Little-master cups or fragments thereof are known, all of them painted by the Sokles Painter:

Berlin, Antikensammlung F 1781

Bolligen, Collection Rolf Blatter

Daskyleion, Excavation E 108.107

Madrid, Museo Arqueologico Nacional 10947

Malibu, J. Paul Getty Museum 86.AE.158

Oxford, Ashmolean Museum 1929.498

Switzerland, private collection

Taranto, Museo Archeologico Nazionale 20910

He belongs to the group of so-called Little masters. A red-figure plate in Paris, Louvre CA 2181, painted in style similar to that of the painter Paseas, is signed by a potter named Soklees. Whether that craftsman is identical with the black-figure potter Sokles remains unclear. The signature may also not be authentic.