201948, ATHENIAN, Hannover, Kestner Museum, 1961.23

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Vase Number: 201948
Fabric: ATHENIAN
Technique: BLACK-FIGURE
Shape Name: AMPHORA, NECK
Date: -550 to -500
Inscriptions: NIKOSTHENES
Signature: NIKOSTHENESEPOIESEN
Attributed To: N P by BEAZLEY
NIKOSTHENES by SIGNATURE
Decoration: Handle plaque: TRIPOD
Neck A and B: EYE
Rim: DOLPHINS
Shoulder A: SYMPOSIUM, YOUTH WITH DRINKING HORN, HARP SUSPENDED
Shoulder B: PALMETTES
Last Recorded Collection: Hannover, Kestner Museum: 1961.23
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 122.7, 1627
Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 106.58BIS
Bundrick, S.D., Athens, Etruria, and the Many Lives of Greek Figured Pottery (Madison, 2019): 28, FIG.2.4 (A)
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): 175
Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: HANNOVER, KESTNER-MUSEUM 1, 27-28, PL.(1649) 17.1-5 View Whole CVA Plates
Steinhart, M., Das Motiv des Auges in der griechischen Bildkunst (Mainz, 1995): PL.29.2 (A)
AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=4095
AVI Record Number: 3885
CAVI Collection: Hannover, Kestner Museum 1961.23.
CAVI Lemma: BF Nikosthenic neck amphora. Painter N. Nikosthenes, potter. 530-520.
CAVI Subject: Unique decoration: Mouth: dolphins. Neck: A: eye. B: similar. Shoulder: three patches: 1. (on A): a naked youth reclining on the ground and holding a horn. 2-3. (on B: to right and left of handles): a horizontal palmette. Body: black except for base rays. Handles: A: tripod. B: maeander with lotus buds.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: shoulder panel: to left of the youth, curving downward along the margin and upward along the youth's outstretched left leg: Nικοσθενε^ς εποιεσεν{1}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} the youth's left foot intervenes.
CAVI Comments: Typical lettering of Painter N; note the nu's.
CAVI Number: 3885
AVI Bibliography: BADB 201,948. — M&M-Auction (1961), pl. 43/141. — ARV[2] (1963), 122 n. 1/7, 1627. — Para. (1971), 106/58 bis (main entry). — Add.[2] (1989), 175 (ad 122/7).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)

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