201063, ATHENIAN, Boston (MA), Museum of Fine Arts, 95.61
- Vase Number: 201063
- Fabric: ATHENIAN
- Technique: RED-FIGURE
- Shape Name: KANTHAROS
- Provenance: ITALY, ETRURIA, VULCI
- Date: -525 to -475
- Inscriptions: NIKOSTHENES
Signature: NIKOSTHENESEPOIESEN - Attributed To: Akin to EPELEIOS P by BEAZLEY
Akin to NIKOSTHENES P by BEAZLEY
NIKOSTHENES by SIGNATURE - Decoration: A: EROTIC, YOUTHS AND NAKED WOMEN ON TABLE WITH CUSHIONS, SOME WITH PHALLOI, PHALLOS, CAGE AND PIPESCASE SUSPENDED, BOWL, BOOTS
B: EROTIC, YOUTHS AND NAKED WOMEN, BAG (?) SUSPENDED, NONSENSE INSCRIPTIONS - Current Collection: Boston (MA), Museum of Fine Arts: 95.61
- Publication Record: American Journal of Archaeology: 88 (1984) PL.41.4 (FOOT)
Antike Kunst: 12 (1969) PL.9.1-3 (A,B)
Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 123, 132
Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, 1st ed. (Oxford, 1942): 104
Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 43.3
Blondell, R. and Ormand, K. (eds.), Ancient Sex: New Essays (Columbus, 2015): 64-65, FIGS.1.8A-B (A AND B)
Boardman, J., Athenian Red Figure Vases (London, 1975): FIG.99 (A, PART OF B)
Boardman, J., and LaRocca, E., Eros in Greece (London, 1978): 86 (A,B)
Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 177
Dover, K., Greek Homosexuality (London, 1978): R223 (A)
Immerwahr, H., Attic Script, A Survey (Oxford, 1990): PL.26.109 (PART OF A)
Johns, C., Sex or Symbol, Erotic Images of Greece and Rome (London, 1982): 120, FIG.97 (A)
Kilmer, M.F., Greek Erotica on Attic Red-Figure Vases (London, 1993): PL. AT P.146, R223 (PART AND DRAWING OF A, DRAWING OF PART OF B)
Kondoleon, C. and Segal, P.C. (eds.), Aphrodite and the gods of love (Boston, 2011): 4, 114-115, NO.94 (COLOUR OF A AND PARTS OF B)
Lang-Auinger, C. and Trinkl, E. (eds.), Griechische Vasen als Medium für Kommunikation. Ausgewählte Aspekte. Akten des internationalen Symposiums im Kunsthistorischen Museum Wien, 5.-7. Oktober 2017. CVA Österreich, Beiheft 3 (Vienna, 2021): 194, FIG.2 (COLOUR OF A AND B)
Lear, A., and Cantarella, E., Images of ancient Greek pederasty, Boys were their gods (London and New York, 2008): 120, FIG.3.10 (A)
Licht, H., Sittengeschichte Griechenlands (Dresden, 1925-28): III, 199
Peschel, I., Die Hetäre bei Symposium und Komos in der attisch rotfigurigen Malerei des 6.-4. Jhs. v.Chr. (Frankfurt, 1987): PLS.38-39 (A, B)
Reinsberg, C., Ehe, Hetärentum und Knabenliebe im antiken Griechenland (Munich, 1989): 100, FIGS.49A-C (DRAWING OF A, B)
Tsingarida, A. (ed.), Shapes and Uses of Greek Vases (7th-4th centuries B.C.), Proceedings of the Symposium held at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 27-29 April 2006 (Brussels, 2009): 339, FIG.2 (PART) - AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=2796
- AVI Record Number: 2649
- CAVI Collection: Boston 95.61.
- CAVI Lemma: RF kantharos. From Vulci. Unattributed{1}. Nikosthenes, potter. Last quarter
sixth.
- CAVI Subject: A: love making. B: the like.
- CAVI Inscriptions: Nonsense: litter of letters between the figures. A: .εο. γρεοσ. νοσε. σε.
νοεσεο. ν[.]ο. εσο. εσο, retr. and upside down. B: νοσε(ε). σεο. οσ(ε)οεο.
σεοπιεο. νααρε(λ)ο(π). νσεσε[.]εεσε. (α)σεοπεο. On the reserved foot profile:
Nικοσθενες εποιε[σ]εν.
- CAVI Footnotes: {1} "The general style is akin to Epeleian ... although one or two
particulars smack of the Nikosthenes Painter," Beazley.
- CAVI Comments: Attic alphabet. Very sloppy.
- CAVI Number: 2649
- AVI Bibliography: Vorberg (1932), 1 and 108. — ARV[2] (1963), 132. — Immerwahr (1984), 342, pl.
41,4 (foot). — Add.[2] (1989), 177. — AttScr (1990), no. 943, fig. 109 (part of
A).
- 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/413393
- Coordinates: 42.421429,11.702499
- Pleiades Coordinates: 42.419009,11.6298975
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