Decoration: I, zone around: ATHLETES, YOUTH PLAYING PIPES, JUDGE Lid: GORGONEION
Last Recorded Collection: Boston (MA), Museum of Fine Arts: 95.16
Publication Record: American Journal of Archaeology: 90 (1986), 2, PL.9, FIG.1 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: BOSTON, MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS 2, 51, PL.(941) 107.1-2 View Whole CVA Plates Herrmann, J. and Kondoleon, C., (eds.), Games for the Gods, The Greek Athlete and the Olympic Spirit (Boston, 2004): 149, NO.150 (COLOUR OF I) Kephalidou, E., Nikitis, Eikonographiki meleti tou archaiou ellinikou athlitismou (Thessaloniki, 1996): PL.29.G33 (I) Kressirer, K., Das Greisenalter in der griechischen Antike. Untersuchung der Vasenbilder und Schriftquellen der archaischen und klassischen Zeit (Hamburg, 2016): 878, NO.1182 (PART OF IZ)
CAVI Lemma: COVERED BF CUP. UNATTRIBUTED. LAST QUARTER SIXTH. CA. 500 (CVA).
CAVI Subject: IN THE CENTER: GORGONEION. AROUND IT: VICTORIOUS ATHLETE, BEARDED, BEING
ADORNED WITH A TAENIA BY A BEARDED OFFICIAL. BEHIND THE VICTOR, A PROCESSION OF
SIX ATHLETES LED BY A FLAUTIST. TWO OF THE SIX ARE BEARDED, THE OTHERS
(INCLUDING THE FLAUTIST) PROBABLY NOT; FOUR OF THE SIX HAVE TAENIAE, BUT ONLY
THE VICTOR HAS A SECOND TAENIA ON HIS RIGHT LEG; HE CARRIES AN ARYBALLOS.
CAVI Inscriptions: BETWEEN THE FIGURES, VERTICALLY AND WIDELY SPACED (I START TO LEFT OF THE
VICTOR): Hε παις | καλε | ναι{1}. Hο παις | καλος. Hε παις | καλε. Hο πα[ι]ς |
καλος.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} THERE IS A SMUDGE AFTER THE IOTA, BUT THERE ARE CERTAINLY NOT TWO
LETTERS; ναιχι IS TO BE EXCLUDED.
CAVI Comments: BEAZLEY NOTES THE FEMININE INSCRIPTIONS, "ALTHOUGH THERE ARE NO WOMEN
PRESENT." THE UNBEARDED MEN ALSO DO NOT LOOK LIKE YOUTHS: CLEARLY THE
INSCRIPTIONS DO NOT REFER TO THE SCENE.
CAVI Number: 2620
AVI Bibliography: MUSEUM PHOTO C 5257. — FRöHNER (1892), NO. 21, PL. 2. — E. ROBINSON (1893),
135/368A. — J.D. BEAZLEY, CVA OXFORD 2, GREAT BRITAIN 9 (1931), P. 97. — CB
(1931–63), I, 34, FIG. 28 (SECTION DR.). — BLöSCH (1940), 121/32. — BEAZLEY
(1947), 236[[F.]]/6. — M. TRUE ET AL., CVA BOSTON 2, USA 19 (1978), PL. 107,1-2
(BIBL.).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
