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BUTADES

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 877 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BUTADES , of See also:

Sicyon, wrongly called DIBUTADES, the first See also:Greek modeller in See also:clay. The See also:story is that his daughter, smitten with love for a youth at See also:Corinth where they lived, See also:drew upon the See also:wall the outline of his See also:shadow, and that upon this outline her See also:father modelled a See also:face of the youth in clay, and baked the See also:model along with the clay tiles which it was his See also:trade to make. This model was preserved in Corinth till See also:Mummius sacked that See also:town. This incident led Butades to See also:ornament the ends of roof-tiles with human faces, a practice which is attested by numerous existing examples. He is also said to have invented a mixture of clay and ruddle, or to have introduced the use of a See also:special See also:kind of red clay (See also:Pliny, Nat. Hist. See also:xxxv. 12 [431). The See also:period at which he flourished is unknown, but has been put at about 600 B.C.

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