Attributed To: N P by BEAZLEY NIKOSTHENES by SIGNATURE
Decoration: A,B: FIGHT, WARRIORS, ONE WITH BOEOTIAN SHIELD, DEVICES, RELIEF SNAKE, WHIRLIGIG (?) OF LOTUS BUDS, HORSEMEN Neck A and B: WINGED WOMAN OR GODDESS (NIKE ?) On handle: YOUTH Shoulder: FLORAL, LOTUS BUD AND PALMETTE DOUBLE CHAIN
Last Recorded Collection: Rome, Mus. Naz. Etrusco di Villa Giulia
CAVI Lemma: Frs. of BF Nikosthenic neck amphora. From Cerveteri. Painter N. Nikosthenes,
potter. 530-520.
CAVI Subject: Neck: A: Nike. B: similar. Shoulder: floral is preserved. Body: fight. On the
topside of the mouth: leaves.
CAVI Inscriptions: On the topside of the mouth: [N]ικοσ[θενες εποιεσ]εν{1}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} "More of the signature may be preserved, but this is all I saw."
(Beazley). I saw more letters, but did not think I saw all: [Nικ]ο[σ]θενε[ς ---
εποι]ε[σ]εν. The inscription is in groups of 1 or two letters between the
leaves.
CAVI Comments: Ex Cervetri. Johnston (1979), 124/16 may be this vase (see p. 125, but there
is a misprint there and the description is not quite the same); if so, add:
under the foot, Dip.: ligature ΕΡ [[lig.]].
CAVI Number: 7052
AVI Bibliography: ABV (1956), 222/51. — Para. (1971), 104 (no bibl.).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
