9705, ATHENIAN, Orvieto, Museo Civico, Collezione Faina, 2488

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Vase Number: 9705
Fabric: ATHENIAN
Technique: BLACK-FIGURE
Shape Name: PYXIS
Provenance: ITALY, ORVIETO
Date: -550 to -500
Attributed To: Compare NIKOSTHENES by UNKNOWN
Decoration: Body: HORSEMEN
Last Recorded Collection: Orvieto, Museo Civico, Collezione Faina: 2488
Publication Record: Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: ORVIETO, MUSEO CIVICO CLAUDIO FAINA 1, III.H.15, BEILAGE 7.40, PLS.(1853,1854) 1.1.3, 2.1-4 View Whole CVA Plates
Cristofani, M., Civilta degli Etruschi (Milan, 1985): 205, FIG.7.78
Maul-Mandelartz, E., Griechische Reiterdarstellungen in agonistischem Zusammenhang (Frankfurt, 1990): PL.16, NO.A25 (PART)
Oakley, J.H. and Palagia, O. (eds.), Athenian Potters and Painters, Volume II (Oxford, 2010): 173, FIG.7 (PART)
Wojcik, M.R., Museo Claudio Faina di Orvieto, Ceramica attica a figure nere (Perugia, 1989): 134-136, NO.74 (BD, COLOUR OF PARTS)
CAVI Collection: Orvieto, Museo Civico, Faina 62(?).
CAVI Lemma: BF Nikosthenic pyxis. From Orvieto, necropolis. Unattributed. Third quarter sixth. 540-530 (Borelli).
CAVI Subject: Horse race (nine riders).
CAVI Inscriptions: Under each horse: a long row of nonsense, probably imitation letters{1}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} the photos. show parts of four inscriptions; I assume the rest. The ph. is too small for reading the inscriptions.
CAVI Comments: = inv. 2488. The number given above is presumably in error.
CAVI Number: 5819
AVI Bibliography: Philippart (1932–3), ii, 102. — L.V. Borrelli, CVA Orvieto, Faina, Italy 41 (1969), pl. 1,1,3.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
Pleiades URI: https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/639959859
Coordinates: 42.718642,12.114315
Pleiades Coordinates: 42.7225286,12.1198882

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