Decoration: A,B: ATHLETES, JUMPING WITH HALTERES, ACONTIST, DISKOBOLOS, YOUTHS I: YOUTH WITH FLOWERS
Last Recorded Collection: New York (N.Y.), Metropolitan Museum: 09.221.47
Publication Record: Alexander, C., Greek athletics (New York, 1925): 14.2 (DETAIL OF A) Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 91.52 Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, 1st ed. (Oxford, 1942): 61.44 Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 32.19 Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: 5 (1910) 142, FIG.1 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 170 Kéi, N., L'esthétique des fleurs, kosmos, poikilia et kharis dans la céramique attique du VIe et du Ve siècle av. n. ère, ICON 22 (Berlin and Boston, 2022): 156, 516, PL.28 (I, COLOUR OF I) Mertens, J., How to read Greek vases (New York, 2010): 18, FIG. 8 (COLOUR OF B) Nikephoros: 2 (1989) 321, FIG.16 (I) Richter, G. & Hall, L., Red-figured Athenian Vases in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New Haven, 1936): PLS.3, 179.5 Studi Etruschi: 81 (2018) PL.30C (A)
CAVI Lemma: RF cup. From Southern Etruria. Euergides Painter. Last quarter sixth. Ca. 510
(Richter).
CAVI Subject: Int.: a wreathed youth bending forward and holding a flower in each hand.
Ext.: athletes: A: jumper; javelin thrower; jumper. B: two runners; between
them, a discus thrower.
CAVI Inscriptions: Int.: circular, starting between the feet: hο v. παις v. καλος, v. ναι{1}. A:
along the top margin, very widely spaced: hο παι[ς] καρτα κ[α]ρ{α}τα γε. B: hο
παις καλος, καρ{α}τα{2}. Under the foot, an Etruscan Gr.; see E. Fiesel, Studi
Etruschi 10 (1936). Also another Gr.: ϝΕΥ, retr.{3}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} a full circle. Note the word division, as indicated above. In addition to
the vacats, the right foot, head, hand, and left foot intervene: hο ^ παις
κα^λο^ς, ναι^. {2} so R-H, text; not visible in the photo. {3} no doubt also
Etruscan.
CAVI Comments: Wreaths and inscriptions are popular with the Euergides Painter (Richter).
CAVI Number: 5588
AVI Bibliography: Richter–Hall (1936), i, 20/5, pls. 3 and 179. — ARV[2] (1963), 91/52. —
Add.[2] (1989), 171.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
