646, ATHENIAN, Basel, market, Münzen und Medaillen A.G.

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Vase Number: 646
Fabric: ATHENIAN
Technique: BLACK-FIGURE
Shape Name: CUP DROOP
Date: -550 to -500
Decoration: A: CHARIOT BETWEEN WARRIORS BETWEEN PALMETTES
B: CHARIOT BETWEEN WARRIOR AND ARCHER BETWEEN PALMETTES
Last Recorded Collection: Basel, market, Münzen und Medaillen A.G.
Publication Record: Kunstwerke der Antike, Münzen und Medaillen, A.G., Basel, sale catalogue: 56 (19.2.1980), PL.23, NO.66 (A, B)
AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=2264
AVI Record Number: 2118
CAVI Collection: Basel Market (M.M.).
CAVI Lemma: BF Droop cup. Unattributed. Third quarter sixth. Ca. 540 (Cahn).
CAVI Subject: Handle zone: A: in the center, a chariot wheeling around; at left, a hoplite; at right, a Scythian archer. B: chariot as on A betwen two hoplites.
CAVI Inscriptions: Handle zone: A, B, each: numerous nonsense inscriptions with imitation letters: A: five inscriptions: to hoplite's lower left: 9 or 10 letters. Between the hoplite's legs: 7 letters beginning with chi, retr. Between the hoplite's head and the chariot's rear: 11 letters. Between the chariot and archer: 11-12 letters. Similar, to archer's right: 12(?) letters. B: similar inscriptions.
CAVI Comments: Several inscriptions seem to begin with chi.
CAVI Number: 2118
AVI Bibliography: M&M-Auction (1980), pl. 23/66 (A, B).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)

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