Decoration: A: ATHLETES WRESTLING, NIKE SEATED ON POST B: NIKE AND TRAINER
Last Recorded Collection: Oxford, Ashmolean Museum: 1890.35
Previous Collections:
Oxford, Ashmolean Museum: V288
Oxford, Ashmolean Museum: 288
Publication Record: BEAZLEY NOTEBOOK: 26, 16.1 Batino, S., Lo skyphos attico dall'iconografia alla funzione (Naples, 2002): 466, FIGS.32.1-2 (A, B) Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1301.14 Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 367.7 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 475 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 360 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: OXFORD, ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM 1, 38, PL.(138) 46.8-9 View Whole CVA Plates Gardner, P., Museum Oxoniense, Catalogue of the Greek Vases in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford, 1893): PLS.14-15 Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VI, PL.583, NIKE 318 (B) Schmidt, S. and Stähli, A. (eds.), Vasenbilder im Kulturtransfer, Zirkulation und Rezeption griechischer Keramik im Mittelmeerraum, Beiheft zum Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Deutschland V (Munich, 2012): 72, FIG.8 (A, B) Thomsen, A., Die Wirkung der Götter, Bilder mit Flügelfiguren auf griechischen Vasen des 6. und 5. Jahrhunderts v.Chr. (Berlin and Boston, 2011): 201, FIG.85A-B (A, B) Thöne, C., Ikonographische Studien zu Nike im 5.Jh.v.Chr., Untersuchungen zu Wirkungsweise und Wesensart, Archäologie & Geschichte 8 (Heidelberg, 1999): PL.9.1 (A) Vanhove, D. (ed.), El deporte en la Grecia antigua, la genesis del olimpismo, May 10 - August 9, 1992 (Barcelona, 1992): 402, NO.271 (A,B) Vanhove, D. (ed.), Le Sport dans la Grece Antique, Du Jeu a la Competition, 23 Janvier- 19 Avril 1992 (Gent, 1992): 402, NO.271 (A, B) Wünsche, R. and Knauss, F. (eds.), Lockender Lorbeer, Sport und Spiel in der Antike, Staatliche Antikensammlungen München (Munich, 2004): 360, FIG.34.5 (DRAWING OF A) Wünsche, R., Der Torso, Ruhm und Rätsel (Munich, 1998): 108, FIG.164 (DRAWING OF A)
CAVI Lemma: RF skyphos. From Chiusi. Penelope Painter. Third quarter fifth. Ca. 440
(Beazley).
CAVI Subject: A: wrestlers; Nike, on a stele, looks on. B: a trainer watching A; a Nike is
also watching.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: above the left wrestler: καλος. B: above the trainer: κ[α]λος. Above Nike:
καλη.
CAVI Comments: Robertson gives an explanation of the two Nikai at the wrestling match: one
wins, the other is afraid of losing. [Note that the `winning' Nike is inscribed
καλη.] Ionic alphabet.
CAVI Number: 5890
AVI Bibliography: J.D. Beazley, CVA Oxford 1, Great Britain 3 (1927), pl. 46,8-9; GB 9, p. vii.
— ARV[2] (1963), 1301/14. — Para. (1971), 475. — Add.[2] (1989), 360. —
Robertson (1992), 219.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
