Attributed To:Near N P by BEAZLEY NIKOSTHENES by SIGNATURE
Decoration: A,B: KOMOS (?), WOMEN, MEN AND YOUTHS, SOME COURTING (EROTIC ?), DOG, COCK Shoulder A: HORSEMEN BETWEEN YOUTHS Shoulder B: FIGHT, WARRIORS, SOME FALLEN
Last Recorded Collection: Paris, private, Stavros S. Niarchos: A036
Previous Collections:
Basel, market, Münzen und Medaillen A.G.
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 225.6, 7 Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 122.1 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 105 Marangou, L.I. et al., Ancient Greek Art from the Collection of Stavros S. Niarchos (Athens, 1995): 70-73. NO.9 (COLOUR OF A, B, AH, SA)
CAVI Collection: ATHENS, STAVROS S. NIARCHOS COLLECTION A 036.
CAVI Lemma: BF NIKOSTHENIC NECK AMPHORA. FROM CERVETERI. PAINTER N. NIKOSTHENES, POTTER.
530-520. CA. 535 (MARANGOU).
CAVI Subject: SHOULDER: A: TWO HORSEMEN BETWEEN YOUTHS. B: DUEL OF WARRIORS OVER A FALLEN.
BODY: A-B: PALMETTE FRIEZE. BELOW: THREE EROTIC COUPLES, AND MEN AND WOMEN
DANCING.
CAVI Inscriptions: SHOULDER: A: STARTING FROM THE MIDDLE OF THE YOUTH AT LEFT AND RUNNING TO
BETWEEN, AND TO RIGHT OF, THE LEFT HORSE'S LEGS: Nικοσθ̣^[ε]νες ε^ποιεσεν{1}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} THE THETA IS INCOMPLETE AND I WONDER IF THE AREA WHERE THE EPSILON SHOULD
BE IS NOT RESTORED. THE HORSE'S LEGS INTERVENE.
CAVI Comments: ON LOAN TO ATHENS, GOULANDRIS MUSEUM. EX COLLECTIONS: CASTELLANI; LONDON,
HODGSON; WESTPORT (IRELAND), EARL OF SLIGO. EX PARIS, NIARCHOS. TYPICAL HAND OF
PAINTER N.
CAVI Number: 1894
AVI Bibliography: PHOTO (POST CARD). — HELBIG (1866), 182/4. — KLEIN (1887), [[58/]]16. —
FRöHNER (1888), 42/93. — POTTIER (1888), 170. — HOPPIN (1924), [[210/]]25. — ABV
(1956), 225/6-7. — M&M-AUCTION (1958), 30F./92, PHS. PL. 29. — ARV[2] (1963),
122 NOS. 1/2. — PARA. (1971), 105. — MARANGOU (1995), 70/9 (ILL.; PH. OF THE
INSCRIPTION, P. 73).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
