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201951, ATHENIAN, Florence, Museo Archeologico Etrusco, 76931

  • Vase Number: 201951
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: BLACK-FIGURE
  • Shape Name: PYXIS
  • Provenance: ITALY, ORVIETO
  • Date: -550 to -500
  • Inscriptions: NIKOSTHENES
    Signature: NIKOSTHENESEPOIESEN
  • Attributed To: NIKOSTHENES by SIGNATURE
  • Decoration: Body: HERAKLES SEATED IN OLYMPOS, ZEUS, HERA (?), HERMES IN NEBRIS, ATHENA, DIONYSOS, APOLLO AND ARTEMIS (?), NIKE, ALL SEATED
    Lid: FIGHT, WARRIORS, HORSEMEN, SHIELD DEVICE, STAR
  • Last Recorded Collection: Florence, Museo Archeologico Etrusco: 76931
  • Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 229
    Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 122, 1627
    Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 108
    Burn, L. and Glynn, R., Beazley Addenda (Oxford, 1982): 27
    Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 59
    Esposito, A.M. and Tommaso, G. (eds.), Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Firenze, Vasi Attici (Firenze, 1993): 37, FIG.43 (COLOUR OF PART)
    Kéi, N., L'esthétique des fleurs, kosmos, poikilia et kharis dans la céramique attique du VIe et du Ve siècle av. n. ère, ICON 22 (Berlin and Boston, 2022): 222, FIG.173 (BD)
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: SUPPLEMENTUM 1, PL.253, ZEUS ADD.197 (BD)
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: V, PL.154, HERAKLES 3388
    Morard, T., Horizontalite et Verticalite, Le bandeau humain et le bandeau divin chez le Peintre de Darius (Mainz, 2009): PL.64 (BD)
    Oakley, J.H. and Palagia, O. (eds.), Athenian Potters and Painters, Volume II (Oxford, 2010): 170, FIG.4 (PARTS, DRAWING OF BD AND LD)
    Shapiro, H.A., Art and Cult under the Tyrants in Athens (Mainz, 1989): PLS.45-46
    del Corral Corredoira, P.D., Y Dioniso desposó a la rubia Ariadna, estudio iconográfico de la cerámica ática (575-300 a.C.) (Oxford, 2007): 108, FIG.48 (PART)
  • AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=3779
  • AVI Record Number: 3602
  • CAVI Collection: Florence 76,931.
  • CAVI Lemma: Fragmentary BF pyxis. From Orvieto. Unattributed. Nikosthenes, potter. 530-520.
  • CAVI Subject: Body: Heracles in Olympus (all seated). Lid: fight.
  • CAVI Inscriptions: Body: along the top margin and starting to right of Heracles' head, interrupted by his club, by Zeus' head and scepter, and ending at the head of the next figure: Nικοσθενες εποιεσεν{1}.
  • CAVI Footnotes: {1} i.e.: N^ικοσθενε^ς ε^ποιεσεν.
  • CAVI Comments: The line of the inscription is straighter than would be usual for Painter N. - Hoppin had added an alien piece, Philadelphia, BF pyxis [University Museum], which is discussed in Para.
  • CAVI Number: 3602
  • AVI Bibliography: Milani (1905), pl. 1,2-4 and p. 3. — Hoppin (1924), 201 (after Milani, with an alien piece). — ABV (1956), 229/vii. — Para. (1971), 108. — Boardman (1974), fig. 153 (0arts). — Add.[2] (1989), 59. — Shapiro (1989), 97, 136-37, 162, pls. 45,b and 46 (signature).
  • CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
  • Pleiades URI: https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/639959859
  • Coordinates: 42.718642,12.114315
  • Pleiades Coordinates: 42.7225286,12.1198882
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Last updated 26/07/2024 18:18:00 by Parker, Greg. Approved by Mannack, Thomas. Copyright © 2003-2025 Classical Art Research Centre, University of Oxford.

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