Attributed To: N P by BEAZLEY NIKOSTHENES by SIGNATURE OVERLAP GROUP by BEAZLEY
Decoration: A,B: FIGHT, WARRIORS, SOME WITH BOEOTIAN SHIELDS, ARCHER, DEVICES, BOAR, PANTHER HEAD AND STAR, TRIPOD, BULL HEAD Neck A: MAENAD WITH LIONS (ARTEMIS POTNIA THERON ?) Neck B: DIONYSOS WITH DRINKING HORN AND GRAPEVINE, MAENAD IN NEBRIS
Last Recorded Collection: Vatican City, Museo Gregoriano Etrusco Vaticano: 17716
Previous Collections:
Vatican City, Museo Gregoriano Etrusco Vaticano: 361
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 216.1 Spivey, N. and Rasmussen, T. (eds.) Looking at Greek Vases (Cambridge, 1991): 138, FIG.56 (B)
CAVI Lemma: BF Nikosthenic neck amphora. From Cerveteri. Painter N. Nikosthenes, potter.
530-520.
CAVI Subject: Neck: A: Dionysus and a maenad. B: a maenad (or Artemis?), with lions. Body:
A: fight. B: similar.
CAVI Inscriptions: Under one handle, in a horizontal double curve: Nικοσθενες εποιεσεν.
CAVI Comments: The handle, under which the signature is found, may be at the point where the
subject (otherwise continuous between A and B) is broken, i.e. begins and ends.
CAVI Number: 6982
AVI Bibliography: Albizzati (1929), 146-47, pl. 48. — ABV (1956), 216/1.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
