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301252, ATHENIAN, Vatican City, Museo Gregoriano Etrusco Vaticano, G74

  • Vase Number: 301252
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: BLACK-FIGURE
  • Shape Name: CUP A
  • Provenance: ITALY, ETRURIA, VULCI
  • Date: -550 to -500
  • Inscriptions: NIKOSTHENES
    Signature: NIKOSTHENESMEPOESEN
  • Attributed To: NIKOSTHENES by SIGNATURE
  • Decoration: A,B: UNDECORATED
  • Last Recorded Collection: Vatican City, Museo Gregoriano Etrusco Vaticano: G74
  • Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 233.19
  • AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=7283
  • AVI Record Number: 7027
  • CAVI Collection: Rome, Vatican G 74.
  • CAVI Lemma: BF cup (or BG?){1}. From Vulci. Unattributed. Nikosthenes, potter. 530-520. Ca. 520 (Beazley–Magi).
  • CAVI Subject: No figured decoration; BG except for tongues under each handle.
  • CAVI Inscriptions: On the reserved torus-shaped foot profile, in BG, vertically well centered: Nικοσθενε[ς] μεποεσεν.
  • CAVI Footnotes: {1} of special shape, somewhat akin to type A.
  • CAVI Comments: Offset lip. The missing final sigma is confirmed by the photo. Theta has a vertical stroke in the lower half of the circle. Definitely not the hand of Painter N.
  • CAVI Number: 7027
  • AVI Bibliography: Photo. — Beazley (1932), 201. — Beazley–Magi (1939), 64/74, pl. 22. — ABV (1956), 233/19.
  • 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/413393
  • Coordinates: 42.421429,11.702499
  • Pleiades Coordinates: 42.419009,11.6298975
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