Decoration: A: ATHENA BETWEEN COLUMNS SURMOUNTED BY COCKS, SHIELD DEVICE, PEGASOS B: ATHLETE, YOUTH DISKOBOLOS, BETWEEN DRAPED MEN, ONE PLAYING PIPES, ONE WITH STAFF (TRAINER)
Last Recorded Collection: Tolmeta, Musée
Publication Record: Archaeological Reports: 17 (1970-71), 39, FIG.14 (A, B) Archaeological Reports: 18 (1971-72), 39, FIG.14 (A, B) Bentz, M., Panathenäische Preisamphoren, Eine athenische Vasengattung und ihre Funktion vom 6.-4. Jahrhundert v. Chr. 18. Beih. zur Antiken Kunst (Basel, 1998): PL.52 (A, B, PART OF B) Quaderni di archeologia della Libia: 8 (1976), 261, FIG.30 (B) Revue Archeologique: 1993, 92-93, FIGS.1-4 (A,B PARTS OF A AND B)
CAVI Lemma: BF Panathenaic prize amphora. From Aslaia near Barca (Cyrenaica), a tomb.
Manner of Kleophrades Painter. 480-470 (Maffre–Ali Mohammed). 500-490
(Vickers–Bazama).
CAVI Subject: A: Athena; device, pegasus. B: pentathlon: in the center, a discobolus
between a bearded flautist and a trainer.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: τον Αθενεθεν αθλον.
CAVI Comments: Tolmeta is ancient Ptolemais. The tomb is dated ca. 425, the vase 50 years
earlier. Found 1969. The earliest Panathenaic found in Cyrenaica. Vickers and
Bazama date it to 500-490 and assign the vase to the Kleophrades Painter
himself. Maffre and Ali Mohammed date it 480-470 and assign it to the workshop
of the Kleophrades Painter, following Matheson (1989), 111-12, and Kunze-Götte
(1992), 84-85. Shapiro (1992), 56 and n. 24 mentions that there are only two
prize Panathenaics with a flautist on B, one of which must be this vase; the
other: Tarentum 115,474.- The lettering is typical of the Kleophrades Painter,
but the spacing is unusual: there is a good-sized vacat both before and after
the inscription, which makes it look centered. Usually, the Kleophrades Painter
fills the whole space, or nearly so. It is unclear whether this forbids
ascribing the amphora to his hand.
CAVI Number: 7714
AVI Bibliography: Vickers–Bazama (1971), 74-75, pls. 27-28. — Vickers–Reynolds (1971–2), 38,
figs. 14,a-b (A, B). — Neils (1992), 196 n. 34. — Maffre–Ali Mohammed (1993),
91-94, figs. 1-4 (A and part, B and part).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
