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)
