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201055, ATHENIAN, Boston (MA), Museum of Fine Arts, 00.334

  • Vase Number: 201055
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: RED-FIGURE
  • Shape Name: KANTHAROS
  • Provenance: ITALY, ETRURIA, TARQUINIA
  • Date: -525 to -475
  • Inscriptions: NIKOSTHENES
    Signature: NIKOSTHENESEPOIESEN
  • Attributed To: NIKOSTHENES P by BEAZLEY
    NIKOSTHENES by SIGNATURE
  • Decoration: A1: SACRIFICE, DIONYSOS WITH KANTHAROS AND MAENADS AT ALTAR
    A2: HERAKLES AND THE BULL
    B1: DIONYSOS RECLINING WITH DRINKING HORN AND VINE, SATYRS WITH WINESKIN AND POINTED AMPHORA
    B2: HERAKLES AND THE LION, IOLAOS (?)
  • Last Recorded Collection: Boston (MA), Museum of Fine Arts: 00.334
  • Publication Record: American Journal of Archaeology: 88 (1984) PL.41.3 (PART OF B)
    Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 126.27
    Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, 1st ed. (Oxford, 1942): 100.20
    Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 43.1
    Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 333
    Benndorf, O., Wiener Vorlegeblätter für archäologische Übungen (Vienna, 1888-1890/91): 1890-1, PL.7.2
    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
    Denoyelle, M. (ed.), Euphronios Peintre, Recontres de l'Ecole du Louvre 10 Octobre 1990 (Paris, 1992): 55, FIG.8 (B1)
    Gebauer, J., Pompe und Thysia, attische Tieropferdarstellungen auf schwarz- und rotfigurigen Vasen (Münster, 2002): 797, FIG.340 (A1)
    Heinemann, A., Der Gott des Gelages. Dionysos, Satyrn und Mänaden auf attischem Trinkgeschirr des 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. (Berlin, 2016): 91, 136, 433, FIGS.36, 79, 290 (B1, PARTS)
    Himmelmann, N., Minima Archeologica, Utopie und Wirklichkeit der Antike (Mainz, 1996): 58, FIG.25 (A)
    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, 227
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: III, PL.338, DIONYSOS 363 (B)
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: V, PL.78, HERAKLES 2345 (FBA)
    Lissarrague, F., La cite des satyres. Une anthropologie ludique (Athenes, VIe-Ve siecle avant J.-C.) (Paris, 2013): 141, FIG.114 (DRAWING OF B1)
    Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Römische Abteilung: 5 (1890) 324, PL.12
    Parke, H., Festivals of the Athenians (London, 1977): FIG.39 (DRAWING OF A)
    Perrot, G., Chipiez, C., Histoire de l'art dans l'antiquite, vols. IX-X (Paris, 1911-14): X, 268
    Pfuhl, E., Malerei und Zeichnung der Griechen (Munich, 1923): FIG.320
    Shapiro, H.A., Art and Cult under the Tyrants in Athens (Mainz, 1989): PL.40B (B)
    Thesaurus Cultus et Rituum Antiquorum: I, PL.59.32 (A1)
  • AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=2831
  • AVI Record Number: 2684
  • LIMC ID: 20442
  • LIMC Web: http://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/080e-74c53fca70571-1
  • CAVI Collection: Boston 00.334.
  • CAVI Lemma: RF kantharos. From Tarquinia. Nikosthenes Painter. Nikosthenes, potter. Last quarter sixth. 530-520.
  • CAVI Subject: A: Dionysus and maenads at an altar. B: Dionysus reclining with satyrs. Below: A: Heracles and the bull. B: Heracles and the lion.
  • CAVI Inscriptions: On the reserved part of the foot profile, in BG: Nικοσθενες εποιεσε(ν){(1)}.
  • CAVI Footnotes: {1} A small raised circle, smaller than an omicron.
  • CAVI Comments: The inscription is in the hand of the Nikosthenes Painter, see Immerwahr (1984).
  • CAVI Number: 2684
  • AVI Bibliography: CB (1931–63), iii, 10/118, pl. 68 (photos). — ARV[2] (1963), 126/27. — Para. (1971), 333. — Immerwahr (1984), 342, pl. 41, fig. 3. — Add.[2] (1989), 176. — AttScr (1990), no. 1052.
  • CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
  • Pleiades URI: https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/413332
  • Coordinates: 42.254315,11.759148
  • Pleiades Coordinates: 42.2545322,11.7581734667

Last updated 26/07/2024 18:17:00 by Parker, Greg. Approved by Mannack, Thomas. Copyright © 2003-2025 Classical Art Research Centre, University of Oxford.

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