Decoration: A: TORCH RACE, MAN AND YOUTHS, NIKE AND OLD MAN WITH STAFF (PROMETHEUS ?) AT ALTAR B: DRAPED YOUTHS, SOME WITH STAFFS, ONE WITH STRIGIL, HALTERES SUSPENDED
Last Recorded Collection: London, British Museum: 1898.7-16.6
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1333.1 Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 466.1 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 480 Boardman, J., Athenian Red Figure Vases, The Classical Period (London, 1989): FIG.319 (A) Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 365 Christesen, P. and Kyle, D.G. (eds.), A companion to Sport and Spectacle in Greek and Roman Antiquity (Malden, 2014): 82, FIG.5.1 (A) Coulson, W.D.E. et al. (eds.), The Archaeology of Athens and Attica under the Democracy (Oxford, 1994): 153, FIG.2 (DRAWING OF A) During, B.S., Wossink, A., and Akkermans, P.M.M.G. (eds.), Correlates of Complexity, Essays in Archaeology and Assyriology, Dedicated to Diederik J.W. Meijer in Honour of his 65th Birthday (Leiden, 2011): 210, FIG.17.3 (DRAWING OF A) Fröhner, W., La Collection Tyszkiewicz (Munich, 1902): PL.35 Gebauer, J., Pompe und Thysia, attische Tieropferdarstellungen auf schwarz- und rotfigurigen Vasen (Münster, 2002): 778, FIG.286 (DRAWING OF A) Hoppin, A., A handbook of Attic red-figured vases signed by or attributed to the various masters of the sixth and fifth centuries B.C. (Cambridge, 1919): II, 219 International Congress of Classical Archaeology, 12, Athens, 1983. Praktika, 2-3 Tou XII Diethnous Synedriou Klasikes Archaiologias, Athena, 4-10 Sep: VOL.C, PL.60.3 (PART OF A) Kaltsas N. (ed.), Agon, Exhibition catalogue (Athens, 2004): 236, NO.125 (COLOUR OF A) Kephalidou, E., Nikitis, Eikonographiki meleti tou archaiou ellinikou athlitismou (Thessaloniki, 1996): PL.56.G4 (A) Kressirer, K., Das Greisenalter in der griechischen Antike. Untersuchung der Vasenbilder und Schriftquellen der archaischen und klassischen Zeit (Hamburg, 2016): 878. NO.1185 (PART OF A) Matheson, S.B. and Pollitt, J.J., Old Age in Greek and Roman Art (Yale, 2022): 247, APP.180 (COLOUR OF A) Smith, A.C., Polis and Personification in Classical Athenian Art (Leiden, 2011): FIG.9.3 (A) Thöne, C., Ikonographische Studien zu Nike im 5.Jh.v.Chr., Untersuchungen zu Wirkungsweise und Wesensart, Archäologie & Geschichte 8 (Heidelberg, 1999): PL.8.4 (A) Valavanis, P., Games and sanctuaries in ancient Greece, Olympia, Delphi, Isthmia, Nemea, Athens (Los Angeles, 2004): 14, FIG.1 (COLOUR OF A) van Straten, F.T., Hiera Kala, Images of Animal Sacrifice in Archaic and Classical Greece (Leiden, 1995): FIG.142 (DRAWING OF A)
CAVI Lemma: RF bell krater. From Greece. Nikias Painter. Late fifth.
CAVI Subject: A: three torch-racers (one at an altar), Nike and Prometheus(?). B: three
youths.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: on the youth's head bands in BG: αιν ΙΙ. Αντιοχ(). | (a stroke inclined to
left) and αϲ ΙΙ Ι. On the BG rim of the foot, Gr.: Nικιας Ερμοκλεους{1}.
Αναφλυστιος εποιεσεν.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} so ARV[2]; ARV[1] has Ε[ρ]μοκλεους, AA, Ε[ρμ]οκλεους. For the ending, see
Threatte (1996), 191.
CAVI Comments: Αντιοχος or Αντιοχις? Kron opts for the former. The vase is in praise of the
painter's citizenship, since his deme is in the tribe Antiochis. For the
inscriptions ARV[2] refers to Fröhner, p. 33. Beazley also states that the man
in a himation on A cannot be the Basileus as he is white-haired; he may be
Prometheus. [The torch race started at the altar of Prometheus]. Robertson
(1992), 250, lists Ferrara T. 563, ARV[2] 1286, middle, Alfieri (1979), fig.
216, as having on the Ext. torch racers with similar headdresses. Ionic except
epsilon for eta in epoiesen. Beazley does not say that the signature is incised,
but that is right.
