330737, ATHENIAN, Cleveland (OH), Museum of Art, Buffalo (N.Y.), Albright Art Gallery, New York (N.Y.), market, Sotheby's Parke Bernet, Buffalo (N.Y.), Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo (N.Y.), Albright Art Gallery, Rome, market, 2022.42
Decoration: Body: ATHENA BETWEEN COCKS, BETWEEN DRAPED MEN WITH STAFFS, ONE WITH BRANCHES, NONSENSE INSCRIPTIONS, DEVICE, SNAKE
Last Recorded Collection: Cleveland (OH), Museum of Art: 2022.42
Previous Collections:
Rome, market
Buffalo (N.Y.), Albright Art Gallery: 1933.135
Buffalo (N.Y.), Albright Art Gallery: G479
Buffalo (N.Y.), Albright Art Gallery: 33.135
New York (N.Y.), market, Sotheby's Parke Bernet
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 522 Haspels, C.H.E., Attic Black-figured Lekythoi (Paris, 1936): 256.34 Minerva, International Review of Ancient Art and Archaeology: 18.5 (SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2007) 38, FIG.6 (COLOUR OF PART OF BD) Neils, J. et al., Goddess and Polis, The Panathenaic Festival in Ancient Athens (Princeton, 1992): 18, 182, NO.55 Shapiro, H.A., Art and Cult under the Tyrants in Athens (Mainz, 1989): PL.15A (PART) Sotheby-Parke-Bernet, New York, sale catalogue: 7.6.2007, 50-51, NO.34 (COLOUR OF BD) Steinhart, M., Die Kunst der Nachahmung (Mainz, 2004): PL.27.2-3 (BD)
CAVI Collection: Buffalo, Albright Art Gallery G 479.
CAVI Lemma: BF/WG lekythos. From Gela. Athena Painter. Early fifth.
CAVI Subject: Athena (flanked by cocks) and two trainers or officers of the Panathenaic
Games.
CAVI Inscriptions: Nonsense: between the heads of Athena and the left trainer: (σ)ογο. To his
right: ιεποσ. To right of Athena's head: λο(.). Below, to left of the right
trainer: ελοιποσ{1}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} Bieber assumes that the second and fourth inscriptions are near-sense:
ιεπον (sic) for ιερον and ο.εροιποσ for ιεροποιος. The photo in AJA does not
show the initial omicron; the second letter does not look like a rho, but it
could be incomplete. Bieber also reads the first and third inscriptions
together: νογο-υον.
CAVI Comments: Ex Hirsch collection. Shapiro mentions the `ιεροποιοι' reading of Bieber's
and refers to DAA. [Readings from the photo in Shapiro differ: between the
heads: looks more like: hοσο. To Athena's left: ιενοσ. Rather than ιεποσ. To
Athena's right: λο(.)^εγοιλο(.). These readings are not certain either as the
letters are in part distorted.] Clearly just nonsense.
CAVI Number: 3001
AVI Bibliography: Haspels (1936), 256/34. — Bieber (1944), 121 ff., fig. 2a-b. — ABV (1956),
522/34. — Shapiro (1989), 35-36, pl. 15,a. — Neils (1992a), 183/55 (bibl.) and
17; ill. p. 18 (all) and p. 182 (part).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
