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303139, ATHENIAN, Brussels, Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, A1703

  • Vase Number: 303139
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: BLACK-FIGURE
  • Shape Name: AMPHORA, PANATHENAIC PRIZE
  • Provenance: LIBYA, CYRENAICA
  • Date: -400 to -300
  • Inscriptions: Inscription: POLYZELOS:ARCHON
    POLYZELOS
  • Attributed To: KITTOS GROUP by BEAZLEY
  • Decoration: A: ATHENA BETWEEN COLUMNS SURMOUNTED BY TRIPTOLEMOS IN WINGED CHARIOT WITH SNAKES AND SHEAF OF CORN
    B: ATHLETES, YOUTHS RUNNING (FOOT RACE)
  • Last Recorded Collection: Brussels, Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire: A1703
  • Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 413.2
    Bentz, M., Panathenäische Preisamphoren, Eine athenische Vasengattung und ihre Funktion vom 6.-4. Jahrhundert v. Chr. 18. Beih. zur Antiken Kunst (Basel, 1998): PLS.103-105.4012 (A, B, PART OF A, PARTS OF B)
    Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 107
    Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: BRUSSELS, MUSEES ROYAUX DU CINQUANTENAIRE 1, III.H.E.5, PL.(027) 14.3A.3B.3C View Whole CVA Plates
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VIII, PL.35, TRIPTOLEMOS 75 (PARTS OF A)
    Papanastasiou, A., Relations Between Redfigured and Black-glazed Vases in Athens of the 4th Century B.C., BAR International Series 1297 (Oxford, 2004): PL.1.2 (B)
    Valavanis, P.D., Panathina i koi Amphoreis apo tin Eretria, Symvoli stin Attiki Angeiographia tou 4ou p.Ch.Al. (Athens, 1991): PLS.76-77, 82A (A, B)
  • AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=3058
  • AVI Record Number: 2908
  • Notes: Colour images copyright Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels (CC BY-SA.4)
  • CAVI Collection: Brussels, Musées Royaux A 1703.
  • CAVI Lemma: BF Panathenaic prize amphora. From Cyrenaica. Kittos Group. 367/6: Polyzelos archon.
  • CAVI Subject: A: Athena. B: foot race.
  • CAVI Inscriptions: Kionedon. A: to right of left column: Πολυζηλος : αρχων. To left of right column: τον Αθενεθεν αθλον.
  • CAVI Comments: By the same hand: San Simeon Heart (Beazley (1943a)). Ionic (archon inscription). The omega a broad uncial. Attic with Ionic lambda (athla inscription). There may be some thickening of some of the strokes at the ends.
  • CAVI Number: 2908
  • AVI Bibliography: [[D.M. Robinson (1910), 425/3]]. — F. Mayence, CVA Brussels 1, Belgium 1 (1926), III H e, pl. 14,3,a,c. — Beazley (1943a), 456/2. — ABV (1956), 413/2. — Eschbach (1986), 30/cat. 16, pl. 8,2 (good picture of archon inscription). — Add.[2] (1989), 107. — AttScr (1990), no. 1221.
  • CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
  • Pleiades URI: https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/373777
  • Coordinates: 32.5492926759,21.6178163432
  • Pleiades Coordinates: 32.5492926759,21.6178163432
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Last updated 15/12/2025 06:46:00. Approved 07/02/2025 06:57:18 by Mannack, Thomas. Copyright © 2003-2026 Classical Art Research Centre, University of Oxford.

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