Macha'tas
(
*Maxa/tas), a sculptor, whose name is known by an inscription, from which it appears that he made a statue of Hercules, which was dedicated by one Laphanes, the son of Las thenes. (Montfaucon,
Diario Italico, p. 425 Brunck,
Anal. vol. iii. p. 188, No. 187; Jacobs,
Animadv. in Anth. Graec. vol. iii. pt. 1, p.
596.) Machatas is mentioned in another inscription as the maker of a statue dedicated to Asclepius. (Böckh,
Corp. Inscrip. 1794; R. Rochette,
Lettre àM. Schorn, p. 346, 2d edition.)
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