Xenophantus

(Ξενόφαντος), a Rhodian, sent by the Rhodians in command of a fleet to the Hellespont in B. C. 220. (Plb. 4.50.) [C.P.M]

(Ξενόφαντος) artists.

1. Of Athens, a maker of fictile vases, known by the inscription ΞΕΝΟΦΑΝΤΟΣ ΕΠΟΙΗΣΕΝ ΑΘΗΝ, round the neck of a police, found in a tomb at Kertch, the ancient Panticapaeum, in the Crimea, and now in the Museum at St. Petersburg. The whole style of this vase is remarkable. The figures upon it are partly painted red on a black ground, and partly modelled in relief in the yellowish clay of which the vessel is made, and decorated with colours and gilding; a style characteristic of the Athenian school. (R. Rochette, Lettre à M. Schorn, p. 63, 2d ed.)

2. A statuary, of Thasos, the son of Chares, lived in the reign of Hadrian, and was sent by his fellow-citizens on a mission to Athens, to dedicate a statue of that emperor; as we learn from an inscription found at Athens, and published by Spon, Chandler, Osann, and Böckh. (Corp. Inscr. Graec. No. 336; Welcker, Kunstblatt, 1827, No. 83; R. Rochette, Lettre à M. Schorn, p. 428,2d ed.) [P.S]