303148, ATHENIAN, Cambridge (MA), Harvard University, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge (MA), Harvard University, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge (MA), Harvard University, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 1925.30
Decoration: A: ATHENA TO RIGHT BETWEEN COLUMNS SURMOUNTED BY STATUES OF ATHENA AND ZEUS, INSCRIPTION B: ATHLETES, YOUTHS (BOXING) BETWEEN DRAPED MEN, WOMAN (NAMED), LEANING ON POST
Last Recorded Collection: Cambridge (MA), Harvard University, Arthur M. Sackler Museum: 1925.30.124
Previous Collections:
Cambridge (MA), Harvard University, Arthur M. Sackler Museum: 1925.30
Cambridge (MA), Harvard University, Arthur M. Sackler Museum: 1925.30.124A
Publication Record: American Journal of Archaeology: 84 (1980), PL.7.3 Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 414.2 , 416 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 178 Bentz, M., Panathenäische Preisamphoren, Eine athenische Vasengattung und ihre Funktion vom 6.-4. Jahrhundert v. Chr. 18. Beih. zur Antiken Kunst (Basel, 1998): PLS.119-120.4081 (A, B) Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 108 Childs, W., Greek Art and Aesthetics in the 4th Century B.C. (Princeton, 2018): FIG.121 (A, B) Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: NEW YORK, HOPPIN AND GALLATIN COLLECTIONS, 6, PL.(6) 6.1-2 View Whole CVA Plates Journal of Hellenic Studies: 123 (2003) PL.7B (B) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VIII, PL.227, ZEUS 190 (PART OF A) Moreno, P. (ed.), Lisippo, l'arte e la fortuna (1995): 89, FIG.4.11.7 (B) Papanastasiou, A., Relations Between Redfigured and Black-glazed Vases in Athens of the 4th Century B.C., BAR International Series 1297 (Oxford, 2004): PL.2.1 (A) Poliakoff, M. B., Combat Sports in the Ancient World, Competition, Violence and Culture (Yale, 1987): 116, FIG.93 (B) Robertson, C.M., The art of vase-painting in classical Athens (Cambridge, 1992): 286, FIGS.288-289 (A, B) Smith, A.C., Polis and Personification in Classical Athenian Art (Leiden, 2011): FIG.8.9 (B) Valavanis, P.D., Panathina i koi Amphoreis apo tin Eretria, Symvoli stin Attiki Angeiographia tou 4ou p.Ch.Al. (Athens, 1991): PLS.80-81, 82B, 83B, 84, 127G (A, B, PARTS) Wünsche, R. and Knauss, F.S. (eds.), Lockender Lorbeer, Sport und Spiel in der Antike, Staatliche Antikensammlungen München (Munich, 2004): 51, FIG.5.9 (B)
CAVI Lemma: Panathenaic prize amphora. From Capua or vicinity. Nikomachos Series. 340/39:
Theophrastos archon.
CAVI Subject: A: Athena to right; column figures: Athena; Zeus with Nike. B: boxers; woman
watching.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: To right of the left column, kion.: τον Αθενεθεν αθλον. To left of the
right column, kion.: Θειοφραστος ηρχε. B: to right of the woman's forehead:
Ολυμπιας.
CAVI Comments: = 1925.30124A (so Bea. Arch. - Olympias is the spirit of Olympia. The same
figure is mentioned on a painting ordered by Alcibiades from Polygnotos' brother
or son, in which he was seen being crowned by Pythias and Olympias (one ref. is
Athenaeus 12.47, cf. also Plut., Alc. 16). According to Robertson, the meaning
of the figure is that the winner of the Panathenaea will go on to the much more
prestigious Olympic festival. The column symbols have the same reference; they
reappear on Louvre MN 706, which must be of the same year. - The athla
inscription is Attic, the archon inscription and the name are Ionic.
CAVI Number: 3904
AVI Bibliography: BADB 3372. — Brauchitsch (1910), 57/92. — [[D.M. Robinson (1910), 425/9?]]. —
J. Hoppin and A. Gallatin, CVA Hoppin & Gallatin, USA 1 (1926), pl. 6. — Smets
(1936), 99/118. — Peters (1942), 147. — Beazley (1943a), 458/2. — Dev.[1]
(1951), 98-99, 118, pl. 48,1-3. — ABV (1956), 414/2. — Para. (1971), 178. —
Havelock (1980), 42 and n. 5, pl. 7,3. — Dev.[2] (1986), pl. 101,3-4 (A, B). —
Eschbach (1986), 91/cat. 58, pl. 25,3-4 (details of A). — Add.[2] (1989), 108. —
AttScr (1990), no. 838. — Robertson (1992), 237 and 285-86, figs. 288-89; cf.
290.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
