Hoppin, Joseph Clark: A handbook of Attic red-figured vases, signed by or attributed to the various masters of the sixth and fifth centuries B.C. (Band 2) (Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1919)

NIKOSTHENES

Klein, pp. 70-71.
Perrot and Chipiez, x, pp. 255-270.
Nicole, Corpus 61.
Beazley, VA. p. 23.
If the proportion of the existing signed vases of Nikosthenes
to those of other artists holds good in the case of the ancient
output, then the atelier of Nikosthenes was the largest of the
Athenian ones or else more attention was paid to the signing of
vases there than elsewhere.
Nearly a hundred vases bear his signature but all except a
bare half-dozen are in the b.f. style. Of these, two bear the sig-
nature of Epiktetos as artist (Epiktetos 15*, 26*) and five only
(one a mixed technique kylix, 4*) have the signature of Nikos-
thenes alone as potter. Three seem to be by the same hand
and are attributed by Beazley to the Death and Sleep Painter
who worked for Pamphaios.
The signatures do not vary except that in 1* and 3* the sigma
in the verb and name is reversed.
1*. Berlin 2324. Form, Furt. Cat. 203. Deep kylix, with
spout, half covered. From Vulci: h. 0.12, d. 0.29. The
vase has been extensively restored.
Cat. p. 621. Klein, p. 71, no. 77.
Brunn, KG. ii, p. 719, no. 50. CIG. 8253.
Weil, AZ. 1879, p. 182 (denies authenticity of signature).
WV. 1890-1891, pl. vii, 1.
Nicole, Corpus 61, no. 89.
Beazley, VA. p. 23 (attr. to Death and Sleep Painter).
Per. and Chip, x, p. 260, fig. 164.
I. Gorgoneion on spout; on either side of spout on the
flat cover a youth.
A. Quadriga, hoplite, and man (much restored).
B. Two archers and hoplite attacking a panther which is
devouring a stag.
Signature on foot N[IKjO^QENE^ ΕΓΌ[ΙΕ]^ΕΝ.
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