Attributed To: N P by BEAZLEY NIKOSTHENES by SIGNATURE OVERLAP GROUP by BEAZLEY
Decoration: A: COURTING, MAN WITH WREATH AND YOUTHS, SOME WITH WREATHS, DOG B: COURTING, MAN, YOUTHS, ONE WITH WREATH, KRATER Neck A and B: FLORAL, LOTUS BUD AND PALMETTE CROSS On handle: SATYR, MAENAD Under handle: LIONS
Last Recorded Collection: Oxford, Ashmolean Museum: 215
Previous Collections:
Oxford, Ashmolean Museum: 1885.654
Oxford, Ashmolean Museum: V215
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 216.3 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 104 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 57 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: OXFORD, ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM 3, 18, PL.(645) 30.2-6 View Whole CVA Plates Gardner, P., Museum Oxoniense, Catalogue of the Greek Vases in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford, 1893): PL.4 (COLOUR DRAWINGS OF A AND B) Roberts, P., Last Supper in Pompeii (Oxford, 2019): 30, FIG.16.3 (COLOUR OF PART) Smith, T.J., Komast Dancers in Archaic Greek Art (Oxford, 2010): 327, PL.21D (PARTS)
CAVI Lemma: BF Nikosthenic neck amphora. From Cerveteri. Painter N. Nikosthenes, potter.
Third quarter sixth. Ca. 530.
CAVI Subject: Body and shoulder: A, B, each: a man courting a boy betweeen two youths (on
B, a dog). At each handle: a lion. On one handle: a satyr; on the other: a
maenad.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: shoulder: above the heads of the lovers, horizontal and fairly straight:
Nικοσθενες εποιεσεν. Under the foot, a red Dip.: ligature ΡΕ [[lig.]] with
D-shaped rho.
CAVI Comments: = 1885.654. The hand is typical of Painter N.
CAVI Number: 5879
AVI Bibliography: Beazley (1947), 205/α 21. — ABV (1956), 216/3. — Para. (1971), 104. — J.
Boardman, CVA Oxford 3, Great Britain 14 (1975), pl. 30,2-6; p. 18, facs. of
Dip. — Johnston (1979), 124/3E 12. — 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)
