Butades

When Butades ( daughter learned that her lover would have to leave on the following day she took up a stylus in order to trace the outline of his silhouette on the wall
as though this shadowy outline of him
would draw him, draw him back to her one day

So her father, Butades of Sicyon, who was the first Greek modeller in clay, modelled the face of her lover in clay, upon the drawing outline she made.

We don't know the daughter's name, for she did not sign her work, not even with a paraph or so,
but it merely allowed this to echo in other voices and other texts.

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