We have already met with a few signed vases, among those of Corinth and Boeotia, of which the earliest go back to the beginning of the seventh century. Those of undoubtedly Attic origin fall into three or four main groups, the representative names in which may here be given.[[1202]]
(1) Early artists:
Klitias and Ergotimos, Taleides, Sophilos, Oikopheles.
(2) Middle period:
Amasis, Exekias, Kolchos, Nearchos, Timagoras, Tychios.
(3) Minor artists, who painted kylikes almost exclusively:
Archikles, Eucheiros, Glaukytes, Hermogenes, Phrynos, Tleson, Xenokles, Sakonides.
(4) Later artists, combining B.F. and R.F. methods, or painting in transitional style:
Andokides, Charinos, Nikosthenes, Pamphaios, Hischylos and Epiktetos, Pasiades.
Kittos, who painted in black figures a Panathenaic amphora of the later class (see p. [391]), belongs to the middle of the fourth century.