- Museum number
- 1842,0407.22
- Description
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Pottery: black-figured amphora. Shape of vase imitated from metal-work; handles broad and thin. Inside the mouth lotus-buds; on the neck, each side, large lotus and honeysuckle pattern. On each handle a Satyr dancing, one to left, the other to right, looking back.
On the shoulder: (a) A cock to right, between Sirens with long tresses, fillets, and wings back-to-back; behind the Siren, on the right, is inscribed; ΝΙΚΟΣΘΕΝΕΕΣ ΕΠΟIΕΣΕN, Νίκοσθέενης έποίησεν.
(b) As (a), except that the cock stands to left. Below, a band of lotus-buds.
On the body, a frieze, with a dance of Satyrs and Maenads: A Maenad to right with long tresses, fillet, necklace, and long purple chiton; a Satyr to left looking back at a Maenad to left (as last, with nebris, or fawn’s skin); a Satyr to right, confronting a Maenad (as the first); Satyr and Maenad to left; the latter has long hair, fillet, necklace, and long embroidered chiton; Satyr to right confronting Maenad (as the first, looking back); Satyr to right confronting Maenad, who looks back, with long hair, fillet, necklace, long striped chiton, and pardalis (leopard skin); Maenad to left, looking to right, with long hair, fillet, long chiton with purple diploidion, between two Satyrs. Below, a chain of palmettes.
- Production date
- 540BC-510BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 19.60 centimetres
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Weight: 1.10 kilograms
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Width: 33 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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Made for export to Etruria.
CVA:
Amphora from the school of Nikosthenes.
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BM Cat. Vases
Brunn, Künstlergesch. ii. p. 714; Klein, Meistersig. p. 58; Baumeister, p. 1983; Genick, Gr. Keramik pl. 4; Smith, Dict. Ant. ii., p. 928.
- Location
- On display (G13/dc8)
- Acquisition date
- 1842
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1842,0407.22
