Attributed To: N P by BEAZLEY NIKOSTHENES by SIGNATURE THIASOS GROUP by BEAZLEY
Decoration: A,B: SATYRS AND MAENADS DANCING, SOME IN NEBRIDES Neck A and B: FLORAL, LOTUS BUD AND PALMETTE CROSS On handle: SATYR Shoulder: COCK BETWEEN SIRENS
Last Recorded Collection: London, British Museum: B296
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 219.18 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: LONDON, BRITISH MUSEUM 4, IIIHe.12, PLS.(217,218) 72.2A-D,73.1A-B View Whole CVA Plates Lang-Auinger, C. and Trinkl, E. (eds.), Phyta kai Zoia. Pflanzen und Tiere auf griechischen Vasen, Beihefte zum Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Österreich, Band 2 (Vienna, 2015): 262, FIG.2F (DRAWING OF PART OF A) Oakley, J., The Greek Vase, Art of the Story Teller (London, 2013): 25, FIG.13.3 (COLOUR OF PART) Sparkes, B.A., Greek Art, Second Edition (Cambridge, 2011): 120, FIG.39 (COLOUR OF PART) Stansbury-O'Donnell, M.D., A History of Greek Art (Oxford, 2015): 277, FIG.11.8 (COLOUR OF PART) Tosto, V., The Black-figure Pottery Signed 'Nikosthenes Epoiesen', Allard Pierson Series 11 (Amsterdam, 1999): PLS.26, 82, 94.17 (NA, PART OF A, PROFILE, DRAWING OF GRAFFITO)
CAVI Lemma: BF Nikosthenic neck amphora. Painter N. 530-520.
CAVI Subject: Shoulder: A: cock between sirens. B: similar. Lower: satyrs and maenads. On
each handle: a satyr.
CAVI Inscriptions: Shoulder: A: behind one siren, under the handle: Nικοσ(θ)ενεες v. εποιεσεν.
CAVI Comments: The theta perhaps with an oblique cross bar.
CAVI Number: 4272
AVI Bibliography: Genick–Furtwängler (1883), pl. 4,b. — H.B. Walters in BM Cat. B (1893), 172.
— H.B. Walters, CVA London 4, Great Britain 5 (1929), III H e, pl. 72,2a-d. —
ABV (1956), 219/18.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
