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)
