Attributed To: N P by BEAZLEY NIKOSTHENES by SIGNATURE
Decoration: A,B: KOMOS, MEN, YOUTHS AND WOMEN, SOME IN NEBRIDES Neck A and B: FLORAL, LOTUS BUD AND PALMETTE CROSS Shoulder A: FIGHT, WARRIORS FIGHTING OVER FALLEN WARRIOR, WITH BOEOTIAN SHIELDS, BETWEEN WOMEN, BETWEEN HORSEMEN Shoulder B: AMAZONOMACHY, WARRIOR AND AMAZON, SHIELD DEVICE, STAR, BETWEEN WOMEN, BETWEEN HORSEMEN
Last Recorded Collection: Rome, Mus. Naz. Etrusco di Villa Giulia: M462
Previous Collections:
Rome, Mus. Naz. Etrusco di Villa Giulia: 50558
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 221.37 , 690 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 104 Boardman, J., The history of Greek vases, potters, painters and pictures (London, 2001): 163, FIG.187 (A) Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 58 Immerwahr, H., Attic Script, A Survey (Oxford, 1990): PL.15.72 (SB) Recke, M., Gewalt und Leid, Das Bild des Krieges bei den Athenern im 6. und 5. Jh. v. Chr. (Istanbul, 2002): PL.5B-C (SA, SB) Torelli, M., The Etruscans (Milan, 2000): 148, 600, NO.183 (COLOUR OF A AND UH)
CAVI Lemma: BF neck amphora. Painter N. Ca. 530-520.
CAVI Subject: Shoulder: A: in center, duel of Greek and Amazon, between woman and horse. B:
(not ill.:) duel over a fallen warrior. Body: A-B: palmette frieze. Below it:
komos: naked men and dressed women dancing.
CAVI Inscriptions: Shoulder: A: between the feet of the duelists, in a wavy horizontal line:
Nικοσθε^νε^ς εποιεσεν{1}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} feet intervene.
CAVI Comments: = M 462. Typical hand of Painter N, but the picture in Caruso is small.
