Decoration: A: ATHENA BETWEEN COLUMNS SURMOUNTED BY COCKS B: ATHLETES BOXING, NIKE
Last Recorded Collection: Marseilles, Musee Borely: 3067
Publication Record: Amouretti, M-C., Le pain et l'huile dans la Grèce Antique, de l'araire au moulin (Paris, 1986): PL.29C (A) Bentz, M., Panathenäische Preisamphoren, Eine athenische Vasengattung und ihre Funktion vom 6.-4. Jahrhundert v. Chr. 18. Beih. zur Antiken Kunst (Basel, 1998): PL.90 (A, B) De Gyptis a Jules Cesar, Marseille cite grecque (Marseille, 1977): 55, NO.65 (COLOUR OF A)
CAVI Lemma: BF Panathenaic prize amphora. From Marseille. Unattributed. Late fifth.
CAVI Subject: A: Athena to left but looking right. B: two boxers; Nike.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: [το]ν Αθενεθεν αθλον{1}. [[Addenda:]] A: the correct reading seems to be:
[τον] Αθενεθεν αθλον.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} the inscription is not transcribed by Neils who says it is missing the
ΤΟ; whence I have assumed it is Attic (note the date).
CAVI Comments: Several features are not standard. [[Addenda:]] Attic except for Ionic
lambda.
CAVI Number: 5075
AVI Bibliography: Smets (1936), no. 87. — NNN (1977), De Gyptis à Jules César ou Marseille cité
grecque (Marseille, Musée Borély, 1976): 55/65. — Neils (1992), 31 and [[196]]
n. 8. — M. Bentz (1998), 155/5.203, pl. 90 (A with inscription; B).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
