Attributed To: N P by BEAZLEY NIKOSTHENES by SIGNATURE THE DOUBLE-FLORAL GROUP by BEAZLEY
Decoration: A,B: FLORAL, LOTUS BUD AND PALMETTE DOUBLE CHAIN Neck A and B: FLORAL, LOTUS BUD AND PALMETTE CROSS On handle: NAKED WOMAN Shoulder: AMAZONOMACHY, WARRIOR AND AMAZON, SHIELD DEVICE, SNAKE RELIEF, BETWEEN SPHINXES
Last Recorded Collection: Paris, Musée du Louvre: F111
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 219.27 Bentz, M., Geominy, W., and Müller, J.M. (eds.), TonArt, Virtuosität antiker Töpfertechnik. Eine Ausstellung im Akademischen Kunstmuseum-Antikensammlung der Universität Bonn 18.November 2010-17. April 2011 (Petersberg, 2010): 52, FIG.14 (COLOUR OF OH) Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: PARIS, LOUVRE 4, III.HE.21, III.HE.22, PLS.(202-204) 36.2.6.11-12.16, 37.2.6, 38.2 View Whole CVA Plates Neer, R.T., Art and Archaeology of the Greek World, a new history, c.2500-c.150 BC (London, 2012): 144, FIG.5.39 (COLOUR OF A) PLS.16, 66, 80, 101.34 (OH, PROFILE, GRAFITTO)
CAVI Lemma: BF Nikosthenic neck amphora. From Cerveteri? Painter N. Nikosthenes, potter.
530-520.
CAVI Subject: Shoulder: A, B, each: a Greek fighting two Amazons, between sphinxes. On each
handle: a nude woman.
CAVI Inscriptions: Under one handle: Nικοσ(θ)ενες εποιεσεν. Under the foot, Dip.: ligature as on
Louvre F 101.
CAVI Comments: Theta with horizontal cross bar.
CAVI Number: 6324
AVI Bibliography: Hackl (1909), 21/41. — E. Pottier, CVA Louvre 4, France 5 (1926), III H e,
pls. 36,2,6,11,12,16, 372,6, 38,2. — ABV (1956), 219/27. — Johnston (1979),
124/3E 9.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
