BUTADES  , of

Sicyon, wrongly called DIBUTADES, the first Greek modeller in clay . The story is that his daughter, smitten with love for a youth at Corinth where they lived, drew upon the wall the outline of his shadow, and that upon this outline her father modelled a face of the youth in clay, and baked the model along with the clay tiles which it was his trade to make . This model was preserved in Corinth till Mummius sacked that town . This incident led Butades to ornament the ends of roof-tiles with human faces, a practice which is attested by numerous existing examples . He is also said to have invented a mixture of clay and ruddle, or to have introduced the use of a special kind of red clay (Pliny, Nat . Hist. xxxv . 12 [431) . The period at which he flourished is unknown, but has been put at about 600 B.C .