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19153, ATHENIAN, San Antonio (TX), Art Museum, 86.134.56

  • Vase Number: 19153
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: BLACK-FIGURE
  • Shape Name: CUP A
  • Date: -550 to -500
  • Inscriptions: NIKOSTHENES
    Signature: NIKOSTHENES EPOESEN
  • Decoration: A: DIONYSOS WITH DRINKING HORN BETWEEN EYES, GRAPEVINE
    B: ARIADNE WITH DRINKING HORN AND GRAPEVINE BETWEEN EYES
    I: GORGONEION
  • Last Recorded Collection: San Antonio (TX), Art Museum: 86.134.56
  • Publication Record: PL.149.172 (I, A)
    Shapiro, H.A. et al. (eds.), Greek Vases in the San Antonio Museum of Art (San Antonio, 1995): 103-104, NO.50 (I, A, PARTS OF A AND B)
  • AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=7706
  • AVI Record Number: 7445
  • CAVI Collection: San Antonio, TX, Museum of Art 86.134.56.
  • CAVI Lemma: BF eye cup. Unattributed. Last quarter sixth. Ca. 520-510 (Cohen).
  • CAVI Subject: Int.: Gorgoneion. Ext.: between eyes and vines: A: Dionysus. B: a maenad (Ariadne?).
  • CAVI Inscriptions: A: between each eye brow and eye: Nικοσθενες and εποεσεν{1}.
  • CAVI Footnotes: {1} the first word is in the text only, the second is illustrated.
  • CAVI Comments: Ex collection G.M. Denman, Jr. Except for the nu, the inscription (epoesen) does not look like Painter N, nor does Cohen attribute the cup to him. Neat letters.
  • CAVI Number: 7445
  • AVI Bibliography: Jordan (1988), 83-84, pl. 31,2-3. — Beth Cohen in Shapiro–Picón–Scott III (1995), 103/50 (ill. includes part of sig.).
  • CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)

Last updated 27/09/2024 04:10:00. Approved by Mannack, Thomas. Copyright © 2003-2025 Classical Art Research Centre, University of Oxford.

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