Last Recorded Collection: Würzburg, Universität, Martin von Wagner Museum: 174
Previous Collections:
Würzburg, Universität, Martin von Wagner Museum: L174
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 151.8 Bentz, M. and Eschbach, N. (eds.), Panathenaika, Symposion zu den Panathenäischen Preisamphoren, Rauischholzhausen 25.-29.11.1998 (Mainz, 2001): 194, NO.319 (NOT ILLUSTRATED) Dozio, E. et al. (eds.), Gli atleti di Zeus, Lo sport nell'antichita (Milan, 2009): 188, NO.117 (COLOUR OF B)
CAVI Lemma: Small BF Panathenaic amphora. Unattributed{1}. Last quarter sixth{2}.
CAVI Subject: A: Athena. B: two runners: the dolichos.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: on Athena's shield, in BG, a magic alphabet: | Β Ε Η Λ Δ Α O I.e., the
letters α β γ δ ε ζ=h (θ) ι arranged to confuse the enemy. Epsilon, gamma and
alpha are intended to be read as retr. On the neck, a Gr.: ligature ΑΒΛ
[[lig.]]{3}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} Inferior, but related, to the Painter of Oxford 218 B. {2} Langlotz dates
ca. 470. {3} read αβγ in AM, after Urlichs who considered it "ein Merkzeichen
des Verkäufers für die Eigenart der Vase." I am not sure that these are the
letters. Not in Johnston (1979).
CAVI Comments: The vase belongs to a group of small Panathenaic amphoras listed in Para.
Theta lacks the dot.
CAVI Number: 8056
AVI Bibliography: Urlichs (1885), 39, pl. 14. — Kalinka (1892), 119. — Dieterich (1911), 202. —
Dornseiff (1922), 159,10. — Langlotz (1932), 27 and 174 (facs. of Gr.), pl.
32,4-5. — Para. (1971), 151/8. — AttScr (1990), no. 945.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
