Decoration: Body: ATHLETES, MEN, SOME DRAPED, ONE PLAYING PIPES, ONE WITH STAFF, ONE SQUATTING, ONE JUMPING WITH HALTERES, NONSENSE INSCRIPTIONS
Last Recorded Collection: Munich, Antikensammlungen: J769
Previous Collections:
Munich, Antikensammlungen: 1892
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 385.32 Braccesi, L. et al., Veder Greco, le necropoli di Agrigento, mostra internazionale, Agrigento, 2. maggio - 31. luglio 1988 (Rome, 1988): 104, NO.6 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 102 Haspels, C.H.E., Attic Black-figured Lekythoi (Paris, 1936): PL.15.3 (PART) Wünsche, R. and Knauss, F.S. (eds.), Lockender Lorbeer, Sport und Spiel in der Antike, Staatliche Antikensammlungen München (Munich, 2004): 41.6, 120, FIG.14.4.1, 127, FIG.14.18, 250, FIG.25.13, 476, NO.41 (PARTS, COLOUR OF PARTS OF BD)
CAVI Lemma: BF lekythos. From Sicily. Acheloos Painter. Late sixth.
CAVI Subject: Athletes.
CAVI Inscriptions: Between the central and right-hand figures: nonsense: ιχι(ν)χεδκς.
CAVI Comments: Haspels 48 says the picture is a repetition of that on the Acheloos Painter's
neck amphora, Würzburg 204. Her ph. shows a part of the picture only, I think
(not the leftmost and rightmost portions): at left, trainer, jumper and
flautist, all to right. The inscription is in small and thin letters between the
jumper and the flautist, downward in a wavy line: ι(χ)ι^(σ)χεδκς. The first chi
has one bar stopping at the crossing point, making the letter look more like an
archaic upsilon, tilted. The nu is a sideways sigma. The jumper's outstretched
arms intervene.
CAVI Number: 5201
AVI Bibliography: Haspels (1936), 48, pl. 15, fig. 3. — ABV (1956), 385/32.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
