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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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