Decoration: A: ATHENA TO RIGHT BETWEEN COLUMNS SURMOUNTED BY NIKAI WITH WREATHS B: ATHLETES, YOUTHS RUNNING
Last Recorded Collection: Sevres, Musee Ceramique: 7230
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 415.6 , 416 Bentz, M., Panathenäische Preisamphoren, Eine athenische Vasengattung und ihre Funktion vom 6.-4. Jahrhundert v. Chr. 18. Beih. zur Antiken Kunst (Basel, 1998): PLS.126-127.4098 (A, B) Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: SEVRES, MUSEE CERAMIQUE, 35-36, PL.(546) 17.19-22 View Whole CVA Plates
CAVI Subject: A: Athena to right; column figures: at left and at right: Nike floating above
a ship's prow. B: foot race: four youths to right.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: to right of left column, kion.: [τ]ων Αθηνηθεν αθλων{1}. At right: α[ρχων
Nι]κητης{2}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} so Beazley in AJA; CVA shows more letters missing at the beginning. {2}
Eschbach: [--]κητης[--].
CAVI Comments: CVA thinks this is the same vase as Brauchitsch (1910), 65/101 despite a
slight difference in reading. Made for the Panathenaea of 330. Cf. London B 609.
Both inscriptions are in the Ionic alphabet.
CAVI Number: 7478
AVI Bibliography: Brauchitsch (1910), 65/101. — [[D.M. Robinson (1910), 425/16]]. — M. Massoul,
CVA Sèvres, France 13 (1936), II H g, pl. 17,19-22. — Smets (1936), 100/128. —
Peters (1942a), 147 (listing). — Beazley (1943a), 458/6. — ABV (1956), 415/6. —
Eschbach (1986), 139/cat. 70 (not ill.). — Robertson (1992), 276.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
