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, Archaeological Museum of Thassos: 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.
