ARCHERMUS  , a Chian sculptor of the

middle of the 6th century B.C . His father Micciades, and his sons, Bupalus and Athenis, were all sculptors of marble, using doubtless the fine marble of their native land . The school excelled in draped female figures . Archermus is said by a scholiast (on Aristophanes' Birds, v . 573) to have been the first to represent Victory and Love with wings . This statement gives especial interest to a discovery made at Delos of a basis signed by Micciades and Archermus which was connected with a winged female figure in rapid motion (see GREEK ART), a figure naturally at first regarded as the Victory of Archermus . Unfortunately further investigation has discredited the notion that the statue belongs to the basis, which seems rather to have supported a sphinx .