SIGNED BY PAMPHAIOS AS POTTER, CIRCA 510 B.C.

Pamphaios was a potter closely associated with innovative potter Nikosthenes and considered his successor. His name as potter appears on more than 70 vases painted in both black- and red-figure, including at least 10 Type A cups. Some of his vases are signed by others as painter, including Epiktetos and Oltos, or attributed to the Nikosthenes Painter, Euphiletos Painter or Paseas. For a black-figured Type A cup signed by Pamphaios, now in Paris, of similar style and ornament see Beazley Archive Pottery Database no. 301276.

It is tempting to see Beazley Archive Pottery Database no. 340425 as the cup presented here since the exterior descriptions (A, between eyes, Dionysos and two satyrs; B, between eyes, satyr and naked maenad riding a donkey; on B, Pamphaios Epoiesen) and collection info (Geneva Market, Koutoulakis) both fit, but not his record of the interior (see J.D. Beazley, Paralipomena p. 109, 1bis).