302756, ATHENIAN, Reading, University, Reading, University, London, market, 77.5.1

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Vase Number: 302756
Fabric: ATHENIAN
Technique: BLACK-FIGURE
Shape Name: AMPHORA, NECK
Date: -550 to -500
Attributed To: N P by BEAZLEY
NIKOSTHENES by SIGNATURE
OVERLAP GROUP by BEAZLEY
Decoration: A,B: HERAKLES AND THE LION, BETWEEN YOUTHS, BIRD FLYING
Neck A and B: SATYR AND MAENAD
On handle: SATYR
Under handle: SIREN
Last Recorded Collection: Reading, University: 77.V.1
Previous Collections:
- London, market
- Reading, University: 77.5.1 (View on Ure Museum site)
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 217.7
AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=7120
AVI Record Number: 6871
Ure Museum Link: https://uremuseum.org/cgi-bin/ure/uredb.cgi?rec=77.5.1.1-17
CAVI Collection: Reading, University.
CAVI Lemma: Frs. of BF Nikosthenic neck amphora. Painter N. Nikosthenes, potter. 530-520.
CAVI Subject: Originally (see comments below): A: Heracles and the Lion. B: similar. At each handle, a siren.
CAVI Inscriptions: A or B: signed Nikosthenes(?) (if identical with the vase cited below).
CAVI Comments: Ex London, Spinks. Perhaps identical with a vase from Cervetri, formerly Depoletti, then Basseggio: Brunn, no. 1; AZ 1885, 250; Hoppin (1924), no. 80. This was signed, but the signature was missing in the Spinks vase even before it was destroyed by enemy action in World War II. Frs. are at Reading.
CAVI Number: 6871
AVI Bibliography: ABV (1956), 217/7 (no bibl.).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)

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