The Naucratis Painter was a
Laconian vase painter of the mid-sixth century BC.
Naucratis was a Greek trading post (emporion) in Egypt. Two fragments of a kylix found in the Demeter Sanctuary,
Cyrene, show that the Naucratis Painter was literate, and the form of a three-stroke
iota suggests, moreover, that he was a foreigner in Laconia.[1]