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Artist
Nikosthenes (potter, signed), N Painter
Description
Nike between two youths, with Nikosthenes' signature (ΝΙΚΟΣΘΕΝΕΣ ΕΠΟΙΕΣΕΝ) on the neck. Side A from an Attic black-figured Nikosthenic amphora, ca. 530–520 BC. From Cerveteri (Caere).
Date between circa 530 and circa 520 BC
Medium black-figure pottery
Dimensions height: 32 cm (12.5 in); diameter: 18.3 cm (7.2 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,32U174728
dimensions QS:P2386,18.3U174728
institution QS:P195,Q19675
Current location
Department of Greek, Etruscan and Roman antiquities in the Louvre, Sully, first floor, room 42, case 13
Accession number
F 102
Object history Place of discovery: Cerveteri, Etruria.
Credit line Campana Collection; purchase, 1861
Inscriptions

Signature: side B, above Nike, close to the neck:

Νικοσθενες εποι{ι}εσεν [Nikosthenes made it] (AVI 6315)
Source/Photographer Jastrow (2007)

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