Attributed To: EPIKTETOS by SIGNATURE NIKOSTHENES by SIGNATURE
Decoration: KOMOS, MAN WITH KANTHAROI, DRAPED MEN, ONE WITH SKYPHOS, ONE PLAYING PIPES
Last Recorded Collection: Odessa, Museum of Western and Eastern Art: 26338
Previous Collections:
Odessa, Museum of Western and Eastern Art: 26.338
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 77.87 Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, 1st ed. (Oxford, 1942): 50.73 Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 27.38 Benndorf, O., Wiener Vorlegeblätter für archäologische Übungen (Vienna, 1888-1890/91): 1890-1, PL.7.3 Burn, L. and Glynn, R., Beazley Addenda (Oxford, 1982): 83 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 168 Cohen, B., Attic Bilingual Vases (New York, 1978): PL.93.2 Dzis-Raiko, G., Odesskii Arkheologicheskii Muzei AN USSR (Kiev, 1983): 35, NO.55 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): I, 321 Koromila, M. (ed.), The Greeks in the Black Sea, From the Bronze Age to the Early Twentieth Century (Athens, 1991): 49, FIG.33 PHOTOGRAPH(S) IN THE BEAZLEY ARCHIVE: 2 (BD, DRAWING) Paleothodoros, D., Epictetos (Leuven, 2004): 8, FIG.1 (DRAWING) Pirenne-Delforge, V. and Prescendi, F. (eds.), 'Nourrir les dieux?', Sacrifice et representation du divin, Actes de la VIe recontre du Groupe de recherche europeen 'Figura, Representation du divin dans les societes grecque et romaine' (Universite de Liege, 23-24 octobre 2009) (Liege, 2011): 70, FIG.8 (DRAWING) Pontica, Muzeul de Istorie Nationala si Archeologie Constanta: 24 (1991) 62, FIG.6 Zapiski Imperatorskago Odesskago Obscestva Istorii i Drevnostej: 16, PL.2.3
CAVI Lemma: Fr. of RF kantharos{1}. From Leuke{2}. Epiktetos. Nikosthenes, potter. Last
quarter sixth. Early (Beazley).
CAVI Subject: A: at left, part of a handle palmette. Komos: the upper parts of three
bearded revelers: one holds a skyphos; another holds two kantharoi; that at
right plays the flutes.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: to left of the left man, not facing: [N]ικοσθενε̣[ς ---]. To right of the
second man: εποιεσε[εν] (this goes with Nikosthenes: the signature frames the
first two revelers). Below the top margin, between the heads of the second and
third man: Επικτετ[ος εγραφσεν]{3}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} the exact shape is uncertain; see ARV[2]. {2} From the sanctuary of
Achilles Pontarchos on the island of Zmeiny (Leuke) opposite the mouth of the
Danube. {3} I have added εγραφσεν.
