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302761, ATHENIAN, Vatican City, Museo Gregoriano Etrusco Vaticano, Vatican City, Museo Gregoriano Etrusco Vaticano, 16519

  • Vase Number: 302761
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: BLACK-FIGURE
  • Shape Name: AMPHORA, NECK
  • Provenance: ITALY, ETRURIA, CERVETERI
  • Date: -550 to -500
  • Inscriptions: NIKOSTHENES
    Signature: NIKOSTHENESEPOIESEN
  • Attributed To: N P by BEAZLEY
    NIKOSTHENES by SIGNATURE
    TORLONIA GROUP by BEAZLEY
  • Decoration: AB1: FLORAL, LOTUS BUDS
    AB2: ANIMAL FRIEZE, GRIFFINS WITH COCK HEADS, PANTHERS, LIONS, SIRENS
    Neck A and B: WINGED GODDESS (NIKE ?)
    On handle: TRIPOD
    On rim: DOLPHINS
    Shoulder: ATHLETES, BOXING, BETWEEN PALMETTES
  • Last Recorded Collection: Vatican City, Museo Gregoriano Etrusco Vaticano: 362
  • Previous Collections:
    • Vatican City, Museo Gregoriano Etrusco Vaticano: 16519
  • Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 218.12
    Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 104
    Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 57
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VI, PL.558, NIKE 5 (A)
    Mandolesi, A., and Sannibale, M. (eds.), Etruschi. L'ideale eroico e il vino lucente (Milan, 2012): 122, FIG.1 (COLOUR OF A)
    PL.88.6, FIGS.10, AG, BN
    PL.88.6, FIGS.10, AG, BN
  • AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=7238
  • AVI Record Number: 6983
  • LIMC ID: 16129
  • LIMC Web: http://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/080e-74883b432d515-d
  • CAVI Collection: Rome, Vatican 362.
  • CAVI Lemma: BF Nikosthenic neck amphora. From Cerveteri. Painter N. Nikosthenes, potter. 530-520.
  • CAVI Subject: Neck: A, B, each: winged Nike. Shoulder: A: boxers. B: similar. Body: animals.
  • CAVI Inscriptions: Shoulder: A: between the legs of the left boxer, horizontal: Nικοσθ^ενε^ς εποιεσεν{1}. Under the foot, Dip.: ligature ΕΡ [[lig.]].
  • CAVI Footnotes: {1} the men's calves intervene.
  • CAVI Number: 6983
  • AVI Bibliography: Hackl (1909), 21/34. — Albizzati (1929), 146-48, pl. 48, figs. 83-84. — ABV (1956), 218/12. — Para. (1971), 104. — Johnston (1979), 124/3E 2. — Add.[2] (1989), 57.
  • 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/422859
  • Coordinates: 41.992798,12.092428
  • Pleiades Coordinates: 42.0047755,12.10281885
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