DescriptionNikosthenes Painter - ARV 127 30 - hoplites and chariots - athletes - Roma MNEVG 20749 - 01.jpg
English: object type / vase shape: attic red figure pyxis with lid of Nikosthenic shape
- description lid: 2 charioteers in chariots (quadrigae) racing, between them 2 hoplites running (sport or fight?)
- pyxis body: athletes: diskoboloi, jumpers with halteres, acontists, draped trainer, draped youth playing auloi
- production place: Athens
- potter: Nikosthenes, signed around the rim of the foot: ΝΙΚΟΣΘΕΝΕΣ ΕΠΟΙΕΣΕΝ
- painter: Nikosthenes Painter
- period / date: late archaic, ca. 520-500 BC
- material: pottery (clay)
- findspot: Cerveteri, necropoli della Banditaccia, recinto, zona A, tumulo II, tomba 9 (tomba dei vasi Greci), camera principale (scavi 1908-1934)
- museum / inventory number: Roma, Museo nazionale etrusco di Villa Giulia 20749 (and 21049)
- bibliography: John D. Beazley, Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, Oxford 1963(2), 127.30, 1627, Para 333
- Beazley Archive Pottery Database 201058
- Please note: Some museums permit photography of their exhibits for private, educational, scientific, non-commercial purposes only. If you intend to use the photo for commercial aims, I would recommend you to contact the museum.
to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
to remix – to adapt the work
Under the following conditions:
attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.