Decoration: A: ATHLETES, DISKOBOLOS, TRAINER, YOUTH PLAYING PIPES, YOUTHS CROUCHING B: ATHLETES, DISKOBOLOS, JUMPING WITH HALTERES, YOUTH PLAYING PIPES
Last Recorded Collection: Würzburg, Universität, Martin von Wagner Museum: L204
Previous Collections:
Rome, private, Feoli
Würzburg, Universität, Martin von Wagner Museum: HA173
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 383.8 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 101 Decker, W., Sport in der griechischen Antike, Vom minoischen Wettkampf bis zu den Olympischen Spielen (Munich, 1995): 97, FIG.41 (B) Filser, W., Die Elite Athens auf der attischen Luxuskeramik, Image & Context 16 (Berlin, Munich, Boston, 2017): 306, FIGS.161A-B (A, B) Gerhard, E., Auserlesene Vasenbilder (Berlin, 1840-58): IV, PL.260 (COLOUR DRAWINGS OF A AND B) Holmberg, E.J., The Red-Line Painter and the Workshop of the Acheloos Painter (Jonsered, 1990): 63, FIG.43.16 (PROFILE) Journal of Hellenic Studies: 71 (1951) 33, NO.16 (PROFILE) Opuscula Romana, Edidit Institutum Romanum Regni Sueciae: 17 (1989) 65, NO.16 (PROFILE) Valavanis, P., Games and sanctuaries in ancient Greece, Olympia, Delphi, Isthmia, Nemea, Athens (Los Angeles, 2004): 381, FIGS.551-552 (COLOUR OF A AND B)
CAVI Lemma: BF neck amphora. From Vulci. Acheloos Painter (Leagros Group). Last quarter
sixth. 510-500.
CAVI Subject: Palaestra: A: a discus thrower, a flautist, and a bearded jumper. B: a
trainer, a discus thrower, a flautist, and a jumper.
CAVI Inscriptions: Nonsense: A: behind the lower body of the discus thrower: νχεδι. To left of
the flautist's back: νχεοιδορ. Above his head: (ν)δευδο. To left of the jumper's
chest: (ν)δεδ, retr. B: along the back of the discus thrower: ν(δ)ερεδι. Above
the jumper: (ν)χε(σ)υ{1}. Around the jumper's head and arm: (ν)χεροδ. Above the
flautist's head: (ν)δεδ, retr. To right of his middle: ιχεροι. Under the foot,
Gr.: ΠΣ with pi having equal verticals, and a three-stroke sigma. Not in
Johnston (1979).
CAVI Footnotes: {1} the fourth letter is unclear; perhaps a reversed sigma.
CAVI Comments: = HA 173. Most nu's are reversed (they could be sideways sigmas); once upside
down.
CAVI Number: 8062
AVI Bibliography: Langlotz (1932), 36, pl. 45. — ABV (1956), 383/8. — Add.[2] (1989), 101.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
