Attributed To:Recalls NIKOMACHOS SERIES by BEAZLEY
Decoration: A: ATHENA TO RIGHT BETWEEN COLUMNS SURMOUNTED BY NIKAI WITH FILLETS IN SHIPS WITH EYES B: ATHLETES, PANKRATION, MEN, ONE DRAPED, WITH PALM LEAF, YOUTH
Last Recorded Collection: London, British Museum: 1873.8-20.369
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 417 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 178 Becatti, G., Kosmos, Studi sul mondo classico. Studia Archeologica 37 (Rome, 1987): 91 (275) FIG.3 (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.126-127.4097 (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.(34) 4.3A-B View Whole CVA Plates Ghisellini, E., Atene e la corte Tolemaica, l'ara con dodekatleon nel Museo Greco-Romano di Alessandria (Rome, 1999): 53, FIG.50 (PART OF B) Hesperia, The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens: 26 (1957) PL.76.4 (PART OF A) 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): 103, FIG.39 (B) Oakley, J.H., A Guide to Scenes of Daily Life on Athenian Vases (Madison, 2020): 140, FIG.7.11 (B) Olivova, V., Sports and Games in the Ancient World (1984): 142, FIG.1 (B) Pedley, J.G., Greek Art and Archaeology (New Jersey, 1993): 310, FIG.9.46 (A) Pedley, J.G., Greek Art and Archaeology. Fifth Edition (London, 2011): 320, FIG.9.46 (COLOUR OF A) Robertson, C.M., The art of vase-painting in classical Athens (Cambridge, 1992): 294, FIGS.289-290 (A, B) Scheibler, I., Griechische Töpferkunst, Herstellung, Handel und Gebrauch der antiken Tongefässe (Munich, 1983): 143, FIG.125 (B) Scheibler, I., Griechische Töpferkunst, Herstellung, Handel und Gebrauch der antiken Tongefässe, 2nd ed. (Munich, 1995): 143, FIG.125 (B) Stuttard, D., Power Games, Ritual and Rivalry at the Ancient Greek Olympics (London, 2012): 146-147, FIG.55 (COLOUR OF PART OF B) Sweet, W.E., Sport and Recreation in Ancient Greece, A Source Book with Translations (Oxford, 1987): 83, PL.29 (PART OF B) Vanhove, D. (ed.), El deporte en la Grecia antigua, la genesis del olimpismo, May 10 - August 9, 1992 (Barcelona, 1992): 103, FIG.5 (B) Vanhove, D. (ed.), Le Sport dans la Grece Antique, Du Jeu a la Competition, 23 Janvier- 19 Avril 1992 (Gent, 1992): 103, FIG.5 (B) Zagdoun, M-A., La sculpture archaisante dans l'art hellenistique et dans l'art romain du haut-empire (Paris, 1989): PL.2, FIG.9 (A)
CAVI Subject: A: ATHENA TO RIGHT; COLUMN FIGURES: AT LEFT AND RIGHT: NIKE HOLDING A WREATH,
STANDING ON A SHIP'S PROW. B: PANKRATION: TWO FIGHTING; AT LEFT, ATHLETE; AT
RIGHT, TRAINER.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: TO RIGHT OF THE LEFT COLUMN, KION.: Nικητης αρχων. TO LEFT OF THE RIGHT
COLUMN, KION.: των Αθηνηθεν αθλων.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} THE SAME GENERAL TYPE AS THE NIKOMACHOS SERIES, BUT THE VASE DEPARTS IN
MANY DETAILS FROM THE NORM; THE FLORAL DECORATION ON THE NECK IS ALMOST THE SAME
AS ON B 609 (BEAZLEY). CONNECTED BY PETERS WITH THE L.C. GROUP. {2} PL. 34,1
PROBABLY SHOWS THE TIP OF A LETTER TO RIGHT OF THE LEFT COLUMN; PL. 34,2 SHOWS
THE BEGINNING OF THE ATHLA INSCRIPTION TO LEFT OF THE RIGHT COLUMN, STARTING AT
THE TOP OF THE CAPITAL: ΤΩ... .
CAVI Comments: = 1873.8-20.369. CALLIGRAPHIC SCRIPT: NOTE ESPECIALLY THE ETAS, WHICH HAVE A
CURVED AND ELONGATED LEFT VERTICAL.
CAVI Number: 4374
AVI Bibliography: PHOTO. — [[HELBIG (1872), 38F./1]]. — H.B. WALTERS IN BM CAT. B (1893), 610.
— [[D.M. ROBINSON (1910), 425/15]]. — A.H. SMITH, CVA LONDON 1, GREAT BRITAIN 1
(1925), III H F, PL. 4,3A-B. — PETERS (1942), 154, FIGS. 10 (A) AND 11 (B, PART)
[[BARELY VIS.]]. — BEAZLEY (1943A), 460. — BEAZLEY (1945), 153. — ABV (1956),
417, TOP (BIBL.). — PARA. (1971), 178. — ESCHBACH (1986), 138/CAT. 69, PL.
34,1-2 (DETAILS OF A){2}. — ADD.[2] (1989), 108. — ROBERTSON (1992), 290, FIGS.
298-99.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
