Sign your name across my art
A fragment of a cup from ancient Ischia (Pithekoussai) inscribed with the artist's name (...-inos), reproduced from Jeffrey M. Hurwit, Artists and Signatures in Ancient Greece (Cambridge, 2015), p. 72
The oldest artist's signature in Europe comes from a little fragment of a krater cup from the island of Ischia off Naples made in the 8th century BC. The P…