Attributed To: NIKOSTHENES P by BEAZLEY PAMPHAIOS by SIGNATURE
Decoration: A: HERMES SEATED WITH LYRE, CATTLE B: SATYRS, ONE WITH DRINKING HORN, ONE WITH THYRSOS (?), MAENADS WITH THYRSOI, ONE WITH KROTALA I: EROTIC, NAKED WOMAN MASTURBATING WITH PHALLOI
Last Recorded Collection: London, British Museum: E815
Publication Record: Antike Welt: 1988, SONDERNUMMER, 66, FIG.109C (I) Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 125.15, 128 Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, 1st ed. (Oxford, 1942): 99.15 Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 44.9 Boardman, J., Athenian Red Figure Vases (London, 1975): FIG.96 (PART OF A) Burn, L. and Glynn, R., Beazley Addenda (Oxford, 1982): 87 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 176 Dierichs, A., Erotik in der Kunst Griechenlands (Mainz, 2008): 108, FIG.76 (COLOUR OF I) Hoppin, A., A handbook of Attic red-figured vases signed by or attributed to the various masters of the sixth and fifth centuries B.C. (Cambridge, 1919): II, 294-5 Horos: 4 (1986) 175, FIG.6 (DRAWING OF I) Journal of Hellenic Studies: 102 (1982) PL.1B (I) Keuls, E., The Reign of the Phallus (New York, 1985): 86, FIG.80 (I) Kilmer, M.F., Greek Erotica on Attic Red-Figure Vases (London, 1993): PL. AT P.146, R212 (I) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: V, PL.221, HERMES 248 (PART OF A) Licht, H., Sittengeschichte Griechenlands (Dresden, 1925-28): III, 201 Marcade, J., Eros Kalos (Geneva, 1962): 108 (I) Neils, J., Women in the ancient world (London, 2011): 41 (COLOUR OF I) PHOTOGRAPH(S) IN THE BEAZLEY ARCHIVE: 8 (I, A, B, PART OF A) Paquette, D., L'Instrument de musique dans la ceramique de la grece antique (Paris, 1984): 165, L32 (PART OF A) Peschel, I., Die Hetäre bei Symposium und Komos in der attisch rotfigurigen Malerei des 6.-4. Jhs. v.Chr. (Frankfurt, 1987): PL.79 (I) Pfuhl, E., Malerei und Zeichnung der Griechen (Munich, 1923): FIG.348 (PART OF I) Pomeroy, S. Goddesses, Whores, Wives and Slaves (New York,1965): FIG.12 (I) Reinsberg, C., Ehe, Hetärentum und Knabenliebe im antiken Griechenland (Munich, 1989): 44, FIG.5 (I) Robson, J., Sex and sexuality in Classical Athens (Edinburgh, 2013): 268, FIG.28 (I) Shipley, L., Experiencing Etruscan Pots, Ceramics, Bodies and Images in Etruria (Oxford, 2015): 70-71, 93, FIGS.6.1 (I,A) (TOP LEFT), 6.2 (A) (BOTTOM), 7.20 (I) Vout, C., Sex on show, Seeing the erotic in Greece and Rome (London, 2013): 70, FIGS.55-56 (COLOUR OF I AND PART OF B)
CAVI Lemma: RF CUP. FROM VULCI. NIKOSTHENES PAINTER. PAMPHAIOS, POTTER. EARLY FIFTH{1}.
CAVI Subject: INT.: A NAKED WOMAN USING OLISBOI. A: HERMES PLAYING THE LYRE, WITH THE
CATTLE (FOUR HEADS). B: THREE MAENADS AND THREE SATYRS.
CAVI Inscriptions: INT.: AT RIGHT: Παν(φ)αιος; AT LEFT: εποιεσεν. A: NONSENSE: ABOVE THE LEFT
COW: νοσ[.]H. ABOVE THE CENTER: ν(θ)ιοσ. ABOVE THE THIRD COW FROM THE LEFT:
επο[.]σε. ABOVE THE FOURTH COW: ν[3-4]πον. B: NOT INSCRIBED.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} ACCORDING TO BLöSCH, DEEP IN THE FIFTH CENTURY, CF. EARLY BRYGOS. {2} CF.
LONDON E 11 AND E 14. SMITH THINKS THE INSCRIPTIONS ON A PLAY WITH THE LETTERS
OF THE SIGNATURE [NOTE επο[.]σε, ABOVE]. ARV[2] 130: LITTER OF LETTERS.
CAVI Comments: A: FOUR HEADS OF CATTLE, FOUR NONSENSE INSCRIPTIONS.
CAVI Number: 4664
AVI Bibliography: C.H. SMITH IN BM CAT. E (1896), 386. — BLöSCH (1940), 68/38, PL. 19,2. —
YALOURIS (1953–4), II, 175-76. — ARV[2] (1963), 125/15, 130. — IMMERWAHR (1984),
350/29. — ADD.[2] (1989), 176 (BIBL.).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
