Decoration: A: ATHENA TO RIGHT BETWEEN COLUMNS SURMOUNTED BY TRIPTOLEMOS SEATED IN WINGED CHARIOT WITH SNAKES WITH SHEAVES OF CORN AND NIKE WITH APHLASTON B: ATHLETES, HOPLITODROMOI, DEVICES, STARS, SNAKE, A
Last Recorded Collection: London, British Museum: B608
Publication Record: American Journal of Archaeology: 69 (1965) PL.73, FIG.5 (A) Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 417.1 Beazley, J.D., The Development of Attic Black-figure, 2nd ed. (California, 1986): PL.46.3 Becatti, G., Kosmos, Studi sul mondo classico. Studia Archeologica 37 (Rome, 1987): 93 (277), FIG.5 (DRAWING OF A) Bentz, M., Panathenäische Preisamphoren, Eine athenische Vasengattung und ihre Funktion vom 6.-4. Jahrhundert v. Chr. 18. Beih. zur Antiken Kunst (Basel, 1998): PLS.121-122.4087 (A, B) Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 108 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: LONDON, BRITISH MUSEUM 1, IIIHf.4, PL.(33) 3.2A-B View Whole CVA Plates Hesperia, The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens: 26 (1957) PL.76.2 (PART OF A) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VIII, PL.35, TRIPTOLEMOS 78 (PART OF A) Müller, S., Das Volk der Athleten, Untersuchungen zur Ideologie und Kritik des Sports in der griechisch-römischen Antike (Trier, 1995): 132, FIG.10 (B) Robertson, C.M., The art of vase-painting in classical Athens (Cambridge, 1992): 290, FIG.294 (A)
CAVI Subject: A: Athena to right; column figures: at left: Triptolemos. At right: Nike. B:
hoplitodromoi (four runners).
CAVI Inscriptions: A: to right of the left column, kion.: τον Αθενεθεν αθ(λ)ον. To left of the
right column, kion.: Πυθοδηλος Nρχεν, for ηρχεν. B: the third shield on the left
is white and has a large Gr.: Α.
CAVI Comments: = 1873.8-20.369. Made for the games of 334. On the survival of the Attic
athla inscription see AttScr (1990), 185 n. 4 and Beazley in AJA who says that
this is the latest example of the athla-inscription in the Attic alphabet. He
says B 608 is generally similar to B 607, which is also from Cervetri, but is
not by same hand. AA 1935 discusses the Gr. The athla inscription is Attic, but
with Ionic lambda lying sideways. The archon inscription is Ionic. The Gr.:
alpha with horizontal cross stroke.
CAVI Number: 4372
AVI Bibliography: Brauchitsch (1910), ..../96, fig. 21. — [[D.M. Robinson (1910), 425/12]]. —
A.H. Smith, CVA London 1, Great Britain 1 (1925), III H f, pl. 3,2a-b. —
Mercklin (1935), 158. — Beazley (1943a), 459. — ABV (1956), 417/1. — Dev.[2]
(1986), pls. 102,3 and 103,2 (A, B). — Eschbach (1986), 111/cat. 65, pl. 29,3-4
(details of A). — Add.[2] (1989), 108. — AttScr (1990), no. 1218. — Robertson
(1992), 288, fig. 294 (A); cf. 290.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
