302854, ATHENIAN, Boston (MA), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MA), Museum of Fine Arts, Basel, market, Münzen und Medaillen A.G., 60.640

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Vase Number: 302854
Fabric: ATHENIAN
Technique: BLACK-FIGURE
Shape Name: CUP, LITTLE MASTER LIP
Provenance: ITALY, ETRURIA, VULCI
Date: -550 to -500
Inscriptions: NIKOSTHENES
Signature: NIKOSTHENESEPOIESEN
Attributed To: BMN P by BEAZLEY
NIKOSTHENES by SIGNATURE
Decoration: A,B: SIGNATURE
I: WARRIOR DISMOUNTING, YOUTH (SQUIRE) ON HORSEBACK
Last Recorded Collection: Boston (MA), Museum of Fine Arts: 60.640A
Previous Collections:
- Basel, market, Münzen und Medaillen A.G.
- Boston (MA), Museum of Fine Arts: 60.640
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 227.17
Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 107
Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 59
Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: BOSTON, MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS 2, 32, PL.(923) 89.1-3 View Whole CVA Plates
Heesen, P., Athenian Little-Master Cups (Amsterdam, 2011): 165, FIG.95, PL.71C (I, PART OF A)
PLS.40, 144.160 (I, PROFILE)
AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=2950
AVI Record Number: 2802
CAVI Collection: Boston 60.640.(1).
CAVI Lemma: BF lip cup. From Vulci. BMN Painter (Beazley). Nikosthenes, potter. Third quarter sixth. Ca. 550 (CVA).
CAVI Subject: Int.: fragmentary: hoplite dismounting; behind him, a mounted youth{2}.
CAVI Inscriptions: Handle zone: A: well centered: Nικοσθενες εποιεσεν. B: Nικ̣οσθενες εποιεσεν.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} CVA and Add.[2] have Boston 60.640a; ABV lists as Basel Market. Para. (wrongly?) as "now" Basel. {2} ABV gives parallels for the scene.
CAVI Comments: The hand is clearly not that of Painter N.
CAVI Number: 2802
AVI Bibliography: ABV (1956), 227/17. — Para. (1971), 107. — M. True et al., CVA Boston 2, USA 19 (1978), pl. 89,1-3 (all). — Immerwahr (1984), 342, pl. 41,1 (inscription on A). — Add.[2] (1989), 59.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
Pleiades URI: https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/413393
Coordinates: 42.421429,11.702499
Pleiades Coordinates: 42.419009,11.6298975

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