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accession number: 1974.10
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Black-Figure Nikosthenic Amphora (Storage Vessel): Dancing Youths; Sphinxes and Lions; Satyrs and Maenads, c. 530–510 BCE. Signed by Nikosthenes (Greek, Attic, active c. 545–510 BC), attributed to Painter N, Thiasos Group (Greek, c. 530–510 BC). Ceramic; diameter: 16.9 cm (6 5/8 in.); overall: 31.1 cm (12 1/4 in.); diameter of rim: 13.3 cm (5 1/4 in.); diameter of foot: 10.7 cm (4 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1974.10
title: Black-Figure Nikosthenic Amphora (Storage Vessel): Dancing Youths; Sphinxes and Lions; Satyrs and Maenads
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creation date: c. 530–510 BCE
creation date earliest: -535
creation date latest: -505
current location: 102B Greek
creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture: Greek, Attic
technique: ceramic
department: Greek and Roman Art
collection: GR - Greek
type: Ceramic
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CREATORS
* Nikosthenes (Greek, Attic, active c. 545–510 BC) - potter
* Painter N, Thiasos Group (Greek, c. 530–510 BC) - painter
Attic vase painter, active ca. 550-540 BCE
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measurements: Diameter: 16.9 cm (6 5/8 in.); Overall: 31.1 cm (12 1/4 in.); Diameter of rim: 13.3 cm (5 1/4 in.); Diameter of foot: 10.7 cm (4 3/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Year in Review: 1974
opening date: 1975-03-11T04:00:00
Year in Review: 1974. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 11-April 6, 1975).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (June 30-September 5, 1982).', 'opening_date': '1982-06-30T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1974-
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
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page number: BAPD 201945
url: http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/65D53D4C-AE0A-410B-B826-10FFBEF2A5F0
Classical Art
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page number: p. 219, No. 24
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page number: p. 122, No. 4
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page number: pl. 57.1
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page number: 104
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Boulter, C. G., Jenifer Neils, and Gisela Walberg. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1971.
page number: pp. 26-27, PLS. 60-62, PLS.16, 100.28
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Eisman, Michael M. "Nikosthenic Amphorai: The J. Paul Getty Museum Amphora." The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal 1 (1974)
page number: p. 43, n. 3
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/4166313
Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1974." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 62, no. 3 (1975): 62-102.
page number: p. 65, fig. 1
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page number: Reproduced: p. 22
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page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 10, fig. 12
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page number: p. 58
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Baumann, Hellmut, William T. Stearn, and Eldwyth Ruth Stearn. The Greek Plant World in Myth, Art, and Literature. Portland, Or: Timber Press, 1993.
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Tosto, Vincent. The Black-Figure Pottery Signed Nikosthenesepoiesen. Amsterdam: Allard Pierson Museum, 1999.
page number: p. 213, no. 28, pl. 16, fig. 32, pl. 68 AP 3.2, pl. 100
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Smith, Tyler Jo. Komast Dancers in Archaic Greek Art. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.
page number: p. 327, pl. 21c
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