Attributed To: N P by BEAZLEY NIKOSTHENES by SIGNATURE
Decoration: A,B: ANIMAL FRIEZE, COCKS, HENS, SIRENS, LION Mouth: DOLPHINS Neck A and B: FLORAL, LOTUS BUD AND PALMETTE CROSS On handle: DRAPED MAN WITH STAFF Shoulder: FIGHT, WARRIORS, ONE WITH BOEOTIAN SHIELD, ONE FALLEN, DEVICES, TRIPOD, BIRD, SNAKE
Last Recorded Collection: Geneva, market
Previous Collections:
Rome, market
Northampton, Castle Ashby
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 221.44 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 58 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: NORTHAMPTON, CASTLE ASHBY, 11-12, PL.(674) 19.4-8 View Whole CVA Plates FIGS.AI, BL, PL.89.8 (A)
CAVI Lemma: BF Nikosthenic neck amphora. From Etruria. Painter N. 530-520. Ca. 530 (CVA).
CAVI Subject: Mouth: dolphins. Neck: floral. Handles, each: youth. Shoulder: between
palmettes: A: duel over a fallen warrior. B: duel. Body: lotus frieze; below it:
animals including an alien piece with cocks fighting, with a hen on either side.
CAVI Inscriptions: On the shoulder, under the handle (left, seen from A): Nικοσθενες εποιεσεν.
On the alien fr.: nonsense: above the left cock, slightly curved: χαικασα{1}.
Above the right cock, similar: [--]χαι̣{2}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} so the text of CVA, with three-stroke sigma printed. {2} the inscription
is clearly incomplete fore, but possibly also aft.
CAVI Comments: Ex Castle Ashby, Northampton. Much repainting; the surface damaged. The
readings of the alien fr. in CVA are there said to differ slightly from those
given by others. CVA seems to consider the two inscriptions as parts of one
inscription, which seems to me doubtful as they are obviously related to the two
cocks. The Second Marquess read the first inscription ΑΙΑΚΙΔ and referred it to
Achilles whom he identified in one of the duels. Klein and Hopkins read a
kale-name; Burl. 1888, the names of the cocks (see Beazley (1929b)). - It is
unclear whether the foot is also alien as Beazley thought it might be.
CAVI Number: 3796
AVI Bibliography: Northampton (1847), 255-62, pls. 15-16. — Klein (1887), 64/44. — Fröhner
(1888), 47/107. — Strong (1904), 94f./G 3, pl. 89 [[invis.]]. — Hoppin (1924),
194 (A). — Beazley (1929b), 6/11. — Philippart (1935), 212. — ABV (1956),
221/44. — J. Boardman and M. Robertson, CVA Northampton, Castle Ashby, Great
Britain 15 (1979), Castle Ashby (1979), no. 18, pl. 19,4-8. — Add.[2] (1989),
58.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
