Attributed To: NIKOSTHENES P by BEAZLEY PAMPHAIOS by SIGNATURE
Decoration: A: HYPNOS AND THANATOS WITH BODY OF SARPEDON, BETWEEN WOMEN, ONE WITH KERYKEION (IRIS ?) B: AMAZONS ARMING, SHIELD DEVICES, BIRD, SNAKE, LEAF, HORSE I: SATYR WITH DRINKING HORN
Last Recorded Collection: London, British Museum: E12
Publication Record: American Journal of Archaeology: 88 (1984) PL.43, FIGS.16-17 (FOOT) Archaeologia: 29, 139, PL.16 Archäologischer Anzeiger: 1983, 477, FIG.10 (I) Archäologischer Anzeiger: 1984, 393, FIG.4 (A) Bammer, A. and Muss, U., Das Artemision von Ephesos, das Weltwunder Ioniens in archaischer und klassischer Zeit, Zaberns Bildbände zur Archäologie (Mainz, 1996): 29, FIG.25 (B) Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 126.24, 128 Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, 1st ed. (Oxford, 1942): 101.3 Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 45, 468 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 333 Beihefte zum Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Deutschland: IV (2009) 139, FIGS.6, 7A (A, PROFILE DRAWING OF FOOT) Benndorf, O., Wiener Vorlegeblätter für archäologische Übungen (Vienna, 1888-1890/91): D, PL.3 Burn, L. and Glynn, R., Beazley Addenda (Oxford, 1982): 87 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 176 Denoyelle, M. (ed.), Euphronios Peintre, Recontres de l'Ecole du Louvre 10 Octobre 1990 (Paris, 1992): 85, FIGS.7-8 (A, B) Fornasier, J., Amazonen, Frauen, Kämpferinnen und Städtegründerinnen (Mainz, 2007): 54, FIG.26 (B) Furtwängler, A. and Reichhold, K., Griechische Vasenmalerei (Munich, 1904-32): PL.156 (A, B, I) Gerhard, E., Auserlesene Vasenbilder (Berlin, 1840-58): III, PL.221-222 (COLOUR DRAWINGS OF A AND B, DRAWINGS OF I AND PART) Hoppin, A., A handbook of Attic red-figured vases signed by or attributed to the various masters of the sixth and fifth centuries B.C. (Cambridge, 1919): II, 291 Hyatt, S. (ed.), The Greek Vase (New York, 1981): FIG.75 (A) Korres, G., Ta Meta Kephalon Krion Krani (Athens, 1970): PL.13B (A) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: V, PL.498, IRIS I 146 (A) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VII, PL.521, SARPEDON 5 (A) Metropolitan Museum Journal: 22 (1987) 8, FIG.4 (A) Miscellanea di Studi Classici in onore de Eugenio Manni (Rome, 1979): 6, PL.3 AT P. 1944 (A) Murray, A.S., Designs from Greek vases in the British Museum (London, 1894): FIG.9 (I) Panofka, H., Der Vasenbildner Panphaios (1848): PL.4 (A, B) Pfuhl, E., Malerei und Zeichnung der Griechen (Munich, 1923): FIG.345 (A) Robertson, C., History of Greek Art (Cambridge, 1975): PL.73A (A) Robertson, C.M., The art of vase-painting in classical Athens (Cambridge, 1992): 40, FIG.31 (A) Schefold, K., Götter und Heldensagen der Griechen in der spätarchaischen Kunst (Munich, 1978): FIG.329 (A) Shapiro, H.A., Personifications in Greek Art, The Representation of Abstract Concepts 600-400 BC (Zurich, 1993): 135, FIG.88 (A) Spivey, N., The Sarpedon Krater, The Life and Afterlife of a Greek Vase (Chicago, 2018): 50-51, FIG.39 (COLOUR OF A) Stampolidis, N.C. et al. (eds.), Beyond. Death and Afterlife in Ancient Greece (Athens, 2014): 21, 150, FIGS.2, 74 (COLOUR OF PART OF A, COLOUR OF A) Willinghöfer, H., Thanatos, Die Darstellung des Todes in der griechischen Kunst der archaischen und klassischen Zeit (Marburg, 1996): FIG.3 (A)
CAVI Lemma: RF cup. From Vulci. Nikosthenes Painter{1}. Last quarter sixth. Ca. 520.
CAVI Subject: Int.: satyr. A: Hypnos and Thanatos with the body of Sarpedon. B: Amazons
arming.
CAVI Inscriptions: On the uppper edge of the reserved foot profile: Παν(φ)αιος εποιεσεν.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} "cannot be denied to the Nikosthenes Painter," Beazley.
CAVI Comments: Robertson gives the history of Beazley's attributions. Phi with diagonal
hasta.
CAVI Number: 4427
AVI Bibliography: FR (1904–32), iii, 244, pl. 156 (dr.). — ARV[2] (1963), 126/24 (much bibl.).
— Para. (1971), 333. — Immerwahr (1984), 344, 350/33, pl. 43, figs. 16-17. —
Add.[2] (1989), 176. — AttScr (1990), no. 1131. — Robertson (1992), 39 and 300
n. 135, fig. 31. — Shapiro (1993), 247/68 and passim (bibl.; discussion).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
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