Attributed To: N P by BEAZLEY NIKOSTHENES by SIGNATURE
Decoration: A: SPHINX AND YOUTH WITH CLUB B: SPHINXES BETWEEN MAN AND YOUTH, BETWEEN DRAPED MEN SEATED Neck A and B: FLORAL, LOTUS BUD AND PALMETTE CROSS Shoulder A: OLD MAN IN CHARIOT, BETWEEN YOUTHS, ONE DRAPED Shoulder B: HERAKLES AND THE LION, BETWEEN YOUTHS, ONE DRAPED, ONE WITH CHLAMYS
Last Recorded Collection: Paris, Musée du Louvre: F107
Publication Record: Albersmeier, S. (ed.), The Art of Ancient Greece, The Walters Art Museum (Baltimore, 2008): 183, FIG.10 (A) Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 221.39 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: PARIS, LOUVRE 4, III.He.20, PLS.(199-201) 33.15, 34.3.7.11.15, 35.3.8 View Whole CVA Plates Kressirer, K., Das Greisenalter in der griechischen Antike. Untersuchung der Vasenbilder und Schriftquellen der archaischen und klassischen Zeit (Hamburg, 2016): 830, NO.67 (PART OF SHA) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VIII, PL.804, SPHINX 169 (A) Petit, T., Oedipe et le Cherubin, Les sphinx levantins, cypriotes et grecs comme gardiens d'Immortalite (Fribourg, 2011): FIG.166 (A) Plantzos, D., Greek Art and Archaeology, c. 1100-30 BC (Athens, 2016): 95, FIG.142 (COLOUR OF A)
CAVI Lemma: BF Nikosthenic neck amphora{1}. From Cerveteri? Painter N. Nikosthenes,
potter. 530-520.
CAVI Subject: Shoulder: A: an old man (Priam?) in a chariot between youths. B: Heracles and
the Lion, between two youths. Below: A: a sphinx, and a youth with a club. B:
sphinxes between a man and a youth, and a seated man.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: to right of the horses, starting at the head of a white horse, in a double
curve: Nικοσθενες εποιεσεν. Under the foot, Dip.: ligature as on Louvre F 101.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} of special shape and pattern work.
CAVI Number: 6320
AVI Bibliography: Hackl (1909), 21/39. — E. Pottier, CVA Louvre 4, France 5 (1926), III H e,
pls. 33,15, 34,3,7,11 and 35,3,8. — ABV (1956), 221/39. — Johnston (1979),
124/3E 7.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
