Attributed To: N P by BEAZLEY NIKOSTHENES by SIGNATURE
Decoration: A,B: ATHLETES, WRESTLING, BOXING, DRAPED YOUTHS AND DRAPED MEN WITH STAFFS, CAULDRON (?) Neck A and B: FLORAL, LOTUS BUD AND PALMETTE CROSS On handle: WARRIOR, HELMET AND SHIELD, DEVICE PANTHER HEADS AND RELIEF SNAKE Shoulder: FLORAL, LOTUS BUD AND PALMETTE DOUBLE CHAIN
Last Recorded Collection: Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum: 3604
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 221.41 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 104 Bernhard-Walcher, A., Alltag, Feste, Religion, Antikes Leben auf griechischen Vasen, eine Ausstellung des Kunsthistorischen Museums (Vienna, 1991): 55, 83, NO.5 (A, COLOUR OF PART OF A) Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 58 Grewenig, M.M., Antike Welten, Meisterwerke griechischer Malerei aus dem Kunsthistorischen Museum Wien. Speyer, Historisches Museum der Pfalz (Speyer): 93 (COLOUR OF A) Vanhove, D. (ed.), El deporte en la Grecia antigua, la genesis del olimpismo, May 10 - August 9, 1992 (Barcelona, 1992): 329, NO.195 (PART) Vanhove, D. (ed.), Le Sport dans la Grece Antique, Du Jeu a la Competition, 23 Janvier- 19 Avril 1992 (Gent, 1992): 329, NO.195 (PART OF A) Yatromanolakis, D. (ed.), Epigraphy of Art II, Inscriptions and Representations on Athenian Vases (Athens, 2024): 124, FIG.16 (PART OF A)
CAVI Collection: VIENNA, KUNSTHISTORISCHES MUSEUM 3604.
CAVI Lemma: BF NIKOSTHENIC NECK AMPHORA. FROM CERVETERI. PAINTER N. NILOSTHENES, POTTER.
530-520.
CAVI Subject: NECK AND SHOULDERS: PALMETTES. BODY: A-B: PALAESTRA: ATHLETES: WRESTLERS AND
BOXERS, WITH TRAINERS; A PRIZE DINOS. ON ONE HANDLE: A WARRIOR. ON THE OTHER: A
SHIELD AND HELMET.
CAVI Inscriptions: BODY: TO RIGHT OF, AND ALONG THE SIDE OF, A PAIR OF WRESTLERS: Nικοσθενες
ε^ποιεσε^ν{1}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} ARMS AND LEGS INTERVENE.
CAVI Comments: EX OEST. MUSEUM 232. THE HAND IS TYPICAL OF PAINTER N. EXC. PHOTOS OF
INSCRIPTION, GVGETTYMUS 1, FIGS. 7 AND 6.
