( fl c. 565-c. 555 BC). Greek vase painter. A Lakonian Black-figure artist, he is named after a cup from Vulci (Paris, Bib. N., Cab. M?dailles, 189; see GREECE, ANCIENT, fig. 103) showing King Arkesilaos of Cyrene (probably Arkesilaos II, reg c. 565-560 BC) watching the weighing and packing of a white substance (?silphion), a precious plant used as a medicine which was the monopoly of the kings of Cyrene. The subject of this cup was used by early scholars to support the mistaken view that Lakonian vases were in fact Cyrenean. The career of the Arkesilaos Painter was short and few works by him
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