Attributed To: N P by BEAZLEY NIKOSTHENES by SIGNATURE TORLONIA GROUP by BEAZLEY
Decoration: A: DRAPED MAN (GOD ?) AND WINGED GODDESS (NIKE), SEATED ON BLOCK AND STOOL, BETWEEN HORSEMEN B: ANIMAL FRIEZE, LIONS AND PANTHERS Neck A: SATYR AND MAENAD, VINE Neck B: DIONYSOS WITH DRINKING HORN, SATYR AND MAENAD On handle: TRIPOD Shoulder: HERAKLES AND THE LION, IOLAOS, LOTUS BUDS
Last Recorded Collection: Paris, Musée du Louvre: F106
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 218.13 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 37 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: PARIS, LOUVRE 4, III.HE.20, III.HE.21, PL.(201) 35.7.10-13 View Whole CVA Plates FIGS.1, AH, BJ, I, 89.7 FIGS.1, AH, BJ, I, 89.7 Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VI, PL.566, NIKE 80 (A2)
CAVI Lemma: BF Nikosthenic neck amphora. From Etruria. Painter N. Nikosthenes, potter.
530-520.
CAVI Subject: Neck: A: a satyr and a maenad. B: Dionysus, a satyr and a maenad. Shoulder:
A: Heracles and the Lion, with Iolaus. B: the same subject, without Iolaus.
Below: A: Zeus(?) and Nike(?) (or Thetis?), both seated, between horsemen. B: a
lion and a panther, twice. On each handle, a tripod.
CAVI Inscriptions: On the shoulder, in A: to right of the lion's legs and through Iolaus':
Nικοσθενες εποιεσεν. Under the foot, Dip.: the same ligature as on Louvre F 101.
CAVI Number: 6319
AVI Bibliography: Hackl (1909), 21/38. — E. Pottier, CVA Louvre 4, France 5 (1926), III H e,
pl. 35,7,10-13. — ABV (1956), 218/13. — Johnston (1979), 124/3E 6. — Add.[2]
(1989), 57.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
