Most of these artists use the formula ἐποίησε,[[1203]] implying that the same man both made and painted the vase; but Exekias in two cases (see below) says ἔγραψε κἀποίησε. The François vase, as we have seen, records the names both of painter and artist. Some of these painters give the name of their father, and thus we learn that Eucheiros (Class 3) was the son of Ergotimos (Class 1), Tleson (Class 3) the son of Nearchos (Class 2). The names Andokides and Nearchos are found among the dedications on the Athenian Acropolis. We now proceed to speak of these artists in detail.
In Class 1 Sophilos appears as the maker of a vase of which fragments were found on the Athenian Acropolis.[[1204]] In style it closely resembles the François vase, and its subject also appears to have been akin—the marriage of Peleus and Thetis—to judge from the figures of Horae still visible. Taleides, whose work is of early character, painted an amphora representing Theseus slaying the Minotaur and two men weighing goods in a balance.[[1205]] Ergotimos, besides the François vase, signed a kylix found in Aegina, and now in Berlin,[[1206]] with interior and exterior subjects.
PLATE XXIX
Attic Black-figured Amphorae (British Museum).
1. In Style of Exekias; 2. In “Affected” Style.
In the next group are two very interesting names, those of Amasis and Exekias, and both demand special attention, the latter for the excellence of his work, the former as connected with a special branch of Attic B.F. vases, which must be treated by themselves. The vases of Exekias include four amphorae, four cups (see Fig. [96]), and two fragments, together with a few unsigned vases which for various reasons may be attributed to him.[[1207]] The finest of his works is an amphora in the Vatican,[[1208]] on one side of which are Ajax and Achilles playing draughts, the one calling out
“four!” the other