Potheinus

(Ποθεῖνος), artists.

1. An Athenian sculptor, whose name is preserved on an inscription which was affixed to the portrait-statue of a certain Nymphodotus, in the palaestra at Athens. (Böckh, Corp. Inscr. No. 270, vol. i. p. 375. The inscription, as explained by Böckh, reads thus, Εἰκόνα τήνδε Ποθεῖνος .... τεύξας θήκατο, which can only mean that Potheinus was both the sculptor and the dedicator of the statue. That artists not unfrequently dedicated their own works, is shown by Welcker, Kunstblatt, 1827, No. 83; comp. R. Rochette, Lettre à M. Schorn, p. 392).

2. A vase-painter, whose name appears on a beautiful vessel, in the ancient style, representing the contest of Thetis and Peleus, which was found in 1833 at Ponte dell' Abbadia, and is now in the museum at Berlin. It is doubtful whether the name inscribed on the vase is Ποθεῖνος or Πείθινος ; but it looks more like the latter. (Levezow, Verzeichniss, No. 1005, p. 246; Gerhard, Berlins Ant. Bilduerke, No. 1005, p. 291; R. Rochette, Lettre à M. Schorn, pp. 56, 57.) [P.S]