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Ram Jug Painter
( fl c. 665–c. 640 BC). Greek vase painter. He is named after the scene on the Middle Proto-Attic Black-and-white-style jug (Aigina, Archaeol. Mus., 566), in which Odysseus’ comrades escape from Polyphemos under rams’ bellies. The Aiginetan provenance of many vessels attributed to this painter has prompted a view that he worked on Aigina rather than in Athens. He was schooled in the tradition of the Early Proto-Attic (c. 700–c. 670 BC) style of the ANALATOS PAINTER, and his earliest work may be seen in the Kerameikos Mug group, showing chariot teams, hoplite warriors and mourning women. The ovoid krater in Berlin (ex-Pergamonmus., A32; see Corp. Vasorum Ant., Berlin i, pp. 19–20, pls 19–21) has also been attributed to his early stage, portraying Apollo, Artemis and a scene identified by some as Orestes slaying Aigisthos.
Part of the Vase painters family
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