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301241, ATHENIAN, Florence, Museo Archeologico Etrusco, Florence, Museo Archeologico Etrusco, 3880

  • Vase Number: 301241
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: BLACK-FIGURE
  • Shape Name: CUP A
  • Date: -525 to -475
  • Inscriptions: NIKOSTHENES
    Signature: NIKOSTHENESEPOIESEN
  • Attributed To: NIKOSTHENES by SIGNATURE
  • Decoration: A: PANTHERS ATTACKING DEER BETWEEN EYES
    B: LIONS ATTACKING DEER BETWEEN EYES
    Under handle: BIRD (EAGLE ?)
  • Last Recorded Collection: Florence, Museo Archeologico Etrusco: 3888
  • Previous Collections:
    • Florence, Museo Archeologico Etrusco: 3880
  • Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 231.5
    Esposito, A.M. and Tommaso, G. (eds.), Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Firenze, Vasi Attici (Firenze, 1993): 37, FIG.42 (A)
    Hemelrijk, J.M., More About Caeretan Hydriae: Addenda et Clarificanda, Allard Pierson Series 17 (Amsterdam, 2010): PL.34D (PART OF A)
    PLS.41.167, 146.167 (A, PROFILE)
  • AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=3724
  • AVI Record Number: 3547
  • CAVI Collection: Florence 3888.
  • CAVI Lemma: BF eye cup. Unattributed. Nikosthenes, potter. 530-520.
  • CAVI Subject: Between eyes: A: male and female panthers attacking a fawn. B: lions attacking a fawn. Under each handle: a flying bird.
  • CAVI Inscriptions: A: above the right eyebrow: Nικοσθενες εποιεσεν.
  • CAVI Comments: Two of the three nu's are of typical Ptr. N shape. Epsilons have short hastae. But can it be Ptr. N?
  • CAVI Number: 3547
  • AVI Bibliography: A.D. Ure (1922), 193 (mention). — ABV (1956), 231/5. — Esposito–De Tommaso (1993), 37/42 (exc.).
  • CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)

Last updated 11/10/2024 10:30:00 by Mannack, Thomas. Approved by Mannack, Thomas. Copyright © 2003-2025 Classical Art Research Centre, University of Oxford.

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