Decoration: Neck A: WINGED WOMAN Neck B: WINGED WOMAN On handle: OLD MAN WITH SPEAR Shoulder A: KOMOS, MEN DANCING AT VOLUTE KRATER WITH CUP Shoulder B: KOMOS, MEN DANCING, SIGNATURE
Last Recorded Collection: Karlsruhe, Badisches Landesmuseum: 64.52
Publication Record: Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: KARLSRUHE, BADISCHES LANDESMUSEUM 3, 33,34,35, FIG.2, PLS.(2955,2956) 10.1-2, 11.1-7 View Whole CVA Plates Kressirer, K., Das Greisenalter in der griechischen Antike. Untersuchung der Vasenbilder und Schriftquellen der archaischen und klassischen Zeit (Hamburg, 2016): 878, NO.1180 (OH1) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VII, PL.558, NIKE 6 (NA) Luxusgeschirr keltischer Fürsten, Griechische Keramik nördlich der Alpen, Sonderausstellung des Mainfränkischen Museums Würzburg (Würzburg, 1995): 28, FIG.6 (PART OF SA) PLS.6.13, 66.13, 92.13 (A, PROFILE) Petrarch, E. (ed.), Bildkatalog, 400 ausgewählte Werke aus den Schausammlungen (Karlsruhe, 1976): FIG.46 (A) Schafer, A, Unterhaltung beim griechischen Symposium (Mainz, 1997): PL.11.1-2 (OF, SB) Thimme, J., Griechische Vasen - eine Auswahl aus den Sammlungen des Badischen Landesmuseums (1975): FIGS.22, 23 (A, HANDLE IN C
CAVI Lemma: BF Nikosthenic neck amphora. Painter N (D. Metzler). Nikosthenes, potter.
530-520.
CAVI Subject: Neck: Nike or Iris. Shoulder: A, B: komos. On each handle: an old man. Body:
three floral friezes.
CAVI Inscriptions: Shoulder: A: starting under the armpit of the left komast and curving
downward in a double curve to end between the legs of the right komast:
Nικοσθενες επ^οιεσεν{1}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} the right komast's right leg intervenes. The Beazley Archive has εποισεν
- a misprint?
CAVI Comments: The handwriting is Painter N's (note the nu).
CAVI Number: 4058
AVI Bibliography: BADB 4706. — Metzler (1969), 143 n. 20. — Add.[2] (1989), 401. — C. Weiss,
CVA Karlsruhe 3, Germany 60 (1990), pls. 10,2, and 11,1-7, fig. 2 (profile); p.
34, facs. of inscription; pl. 11,3, ph. of inscription (bibl.).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
