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302208, ATHENIAN, Rome, private, Feoli, Würzburg, Universität, Martin von Wagner Museum, Würzburg, Universität, Martin von Wagner Museum, L215

  • Vase Number: 302208
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: BLACK-FIGURE
  • Shape Name: AMPHORA, NECK
  • Provenance: ITALY, ETRURIA, VULCI
  • Date: -550 TO -500
  • Inscriptions: Named: NIKAS, POLYMENON
  • Attributed To: LEAGROS GROUP by BEAZLEY
  • Decoration: A: ATHLETES, YOUTH AND MEN, ONE DRAPED, WITH STAFF (TRAINER), ONE JUMPING WITH HALTERES, ONE RUNNING WITH YOUTH, BOTH NAMED, TREE
    B: ATHLETES, YOUTHS AND MEN, ONE DRAPED, WITH STAFF (TRAINER), ONE WITH DISKOS, ACONTISTS, ONE KNEELING, TREE
  • Last Recorded Collection: Würzburg, Universität, Martin von Wagner Museum: 215
  • Previous Collections:
    • Rome, private, Feoli
    • Würzburg, Universität, Martin von Wagner Museum: L215
  • Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 375.213
    Bulletin de Correspondance Hellenique: 118 (1994) 47, FIG.3 (B)
    Dozio, E. et al. (eds.), Gli atleti di Zeus, Lo sport nell'antichita (Milan, 2009): 161, NO.90 (COLOUR OF B)
    Gerhard, E., Auserlesene Vasenbilder (Berlin, 1840-58): IV, PL.259 (COLOUR DRAWINGS OF A AND B)
    Martins, J.P., A Arte e os Jogos Gregos na Antiguidade, As Representacoes das Actividades Fisico-Atleticas na Ceramica Classica Grega nos Periodos das Figureas Negras e Vermelhas (Coimbra, 2009): 82, FIG.7 (PART OF A)
    Valavanis, P., Games and sanctuaries in ancient Greece, Olympia, Delphi, Isthmia, Nemea, Athens (Los Angeles, 2004): 293, FIG.418 (COLOUR OF A)
    Vanhove, D. (ed.), El deporte en la Grecia antigua, la genesis del olimpismo, May 10 - August 9, 1992 (Barcelona, 1992): 311, NO.176 (COLOUR OF A)
    Vanhove, D. (ed.), Le Sport dans la Grece Antique, Du Jeu a la Competition, 23 Janvier- 19 Avril 1992 (Gent, 1992): 311, NO.176 (COLOUR OF A)
  • AVI Web: HTTPS://WWW.AVI.UNIBAS.CH/DB/SEARCHFORM.HTML?ID=8357
  • AVI Record Number: 8064
  • CAVI Collection: WüRZBURG 215.
  • CAVI Lemma: BF NECK AMPHORA. FROM VULCI. LEAGROS GROUP; LEA CLASS NO. 2 (BLöSCH). LAST QUARTER SIXTH. 510-500.
  • CAVI Subject: ATHLETES: A: A TRAINER; A BEARDED JUMPER; TWO RUNNERS (ONE BEARDED). BETWEEN THEIR LEGS, A DISCUS. B: DISCOBOLUS; A KNEELING YOUTH (JAVELIN THROWER); A TRAINER; A BEARDED JAVELIN THROWER.
  • CAVI Inscriptions: A: BETWEEN THE RUNNERS' LEGS, ABOVE THE DISCUS: Πολυμένον, RETR. TO RIGHT OF THEIR MIDDLES: Nικᾶς{1}.
  • CAVI Footnotes: {1} THE ALPHA AND SIGMA LIE SIDEWAYS. POLYMENON IS NOT LISTED IN PAPE OR PA (BUT POLYMENES IS); HE APPEARS ONLY HERE IN LGPN II; Nικᾶς IS LISTED IN PAPE ON A COAN COIN, NOT AT ALL IN LGPN II. BOTH NAMES SEEM TO ME TO BE PUNNING: THE VICTOR AND THE SECOND IN ENDURANCE. Πολυμένον, νικᾶ[ι]ς SEEMS MUCH LESS LIKELY (AN IOTA WOULD BE MISSING), ALTHOUGH KRETSCHMER GIVES νικᾷς, Πολύμενον. LANGLOTZ ALSO THINKS Nικᾶς IS A NAME. Nικᾶς SEEMS TO BE THE RIGHT READING, Nίκο̅ν BEING EXCLUDED BY THE PENULTIMATE LETTER. ONE OF THE RUNNERS IS NOT A YOUTH, BUT I DID NOT NOTE WHICH IT WAS.
  • CAVI Comments: = U III 118.
  • CAVI Number: 8064
  • AVI Bibliography: PHOTO. — CIG 4 (1855–77), NO. 7874. — KRETSCHMER (1894), 86 N. 2. — LANGLOTZ (1932), 39/215, PL. 59. — ABV (1956), 375/213.
  • 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/413393
  • Coordinates: 42.421429,11.702499
  • Pleiades Coordinates: 42.419009,11.6298975
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