Attributed To: NIKOSTHENES P by WEILL NIKOSTHENES by SIGNATURE
Decoration: CULT (?) PYRRHIC, WARRIORS DANCING AT HERM, DRAPED YOUTH PLAYING PIPES, DEVICE, IVY WREATH
Last Recorded Collection: Limenas, Museum: 275059
Publication Record: Batino, S., Lo skyphos attico dall'iconografia alla funzione (Naples, 2002): 473, FIG.57 Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1627.25BIS Bulletin de Correspondance Hellenique: 92 (1968) 554, FIGS.1-3 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 176 Ceccarelli, P., La pirrica nell'antichita greco romana, studi sulla danza armata (Pisa, 1998): PL.1.2 Coulson, W.D.E. et al. (eds.), The Archaeology of Athens and Attica under the Democracy (Oxford, 1994): 152, FIG.1 Delavaud-Roux, M-H., Les danses armees en Grece antique (Aix-en-Provence, 1993): 111, NO.27
CAVI Lemma: Frs. of RF skyphos. From Thasos. Nikosthenes Painter. Last quarter sixth.
520-510 (Poursat).
CAVI Subject: At left, middle part of a triple or quadruple herm; portions of armed
dancers; upper portion of a young flautist.
CAVI Inscriptions: At the herm's highest preserved portion, remains of BG dots, perhaps of two
horizontal lines, which P. considers an indication of a simulated inscription,
perhaps rightly. Under the foot, around triple circles, well spaced and
ornamental, in a circle, facing out: [N]ικοσθ[ενε]ς επο[ιεσεν].
CAVI Comments: For the position of the signature, Beazley compares the Acropolis frs. ABV
(1956), 233-34 and Delt. 16,3. See also AttScr (1990), 49 n. 47. All Corinthian
type skyphoi in this period are works of Nikosthenes; the other examples: ABV
231/1-3 and 234.
