Analatos Painter

The Analatos Painter belongs to the transition from Late Geometric to Early Proto-Attic vase painting.

For example, one of his Geometric hydriai depicts a prothesis (laying-out of a body), showing Egyptian influences.

The adoption of eastern influences was a key feature of the subsequent Orientalising Period, of which the Analatos Painter was one of the main early proponents.

Characteristic of this new style were fantastic animals, sphinxes without wings or faces, rows of dancing men or women, cable patterns and rosettes.

His oldest known amphora, now in the Ashmolean Museum shows a row of two-horsed chariots on its belly, as does a loutrophoros in the Louvre and several other pieces.

Couples dancing to the sound of the aulos on a loutrophoros , ca. 690 BC, Louvre .
Fragment of a votive plaque bearing the oldest known painted Greek inscription, circa 700–675 BC, found on Aegina . Athens : National Archaeological Museum .