Attributed To: N P by BEAZLEY NIKOSTHENES by SIGNATURE THE DOUBLE-FLORAL GROUP by BEAZLEY
Decoration: A,B: FLORAL, LOTUS BUD AND PALMETTE DOUBLE CHAIN Neck A and B: HERAKLES AND THE LION, CLUB, BOW AND QUIVER, CLOTH SUSPENDED Shoulder: HERAKLES AND THE LION, BETWEEN YOUTHS (ONE IOLAOS ?), AND DRAPED MAN (?)
Last Recorded Collection: Paris, Musée du Louvre: F108
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 220.30 Berard, C. (ed.), Images et societe en Grece ancienne, L'iconographie comme methode d'analyse, Cahiers d'Archeologie Romande 36 (Lausanne, 1987): 180, FIG.4A-D Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 58 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: PARIS, LOUVRE 4, III.He.20, PLS.(199-201) 33.16, 34.4.8.12.16, 35.4.9 View Whole CVA Plates PLS.21, 66, 102.35 (NA, B, OH, PROFILE) PLS.21, 66, 102.35 (NA, B, OH, PROFILE)
CAVI Lemma: BF Nikosthenic neck amphora. From Cerveteri? Painter N. Nikosthenes, potter.
530-520.
CAVI Subject: Neck: A: Heracles and ... B: the Lion. Shoulder: A: Heracles and the Lion,
with two youths; a lion to left. B: similar, with three youths; a lion to right.
On each handle: a naked woman.
CAVI Inscriptions: B: to left and right of the lion's legs, and between them, starting downward,
but mostly nearly horizontal: Nικ̣^οσ^θενες ^ εποιεσε^ν.
CAVI Comments: Is the division `syllabic'?
CAVI Number: 6321
AVI Bibliography: E. Pottier, CVA Louvre 4, France 5 (1926), III H e, pls. 33,16, 34,4,8,12 and
35,1,4,9. — ABV (1956), 220/30. — Add.[2] (1989), 58.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
