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303149, ATHENIAN, Paris, Musée du Louvre, Paris, Musée du Louvre, Paris, Musée du Louvre, N3116

  • Vase Number: 303149
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: BLACK-FIGURE
  • Shape Name: AMPHORA, PANATHENAIC PRIZE
  • Provenance: LIBYA, BENGHAZI
  • Date: -400 TO -300
  • Inscriptions: Inscription: THEOPHRAS[TO]S ARCHON
  • Attributed To: NIKOMACHOS SERIES by BEAZLEY
  • Decoration: A: ATHENA TO RIGHT BETWEEN COLUMNS SURMOUNTED BY ATHENA AND ZEUS
    B: ATHLETES, YOUTHS, ONE RUNNING, SOME WITH PALM LEAVES (VICTOR), MEN, ONE DRAPED, WITH STAFF, ONE IN BOOTS AND CHLAMYS, WITH TORCH OR TRUMPET
  • Last Recorded Collection: Paris, Musée du Louvre: MN706
  • Previous Collections:
    • Paris, Musée du Louvre: N3116
    • Paris, Musée du Louvre: N3163
  • Publication Record: American Journal of Archaeology: (1943), 462-5
    Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 415.3
    Becatti, G., Kosmos, Studi sul mondo classico. Studia Archeologica 37 (Rome, 1987): 92 (276), FIG.4 (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.117-118.4079 (A, B)
    Bulletin de Correspondance Hellenique: 114 (1990), 347, FIGS.21, 24 (B, PART OF B)
    Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 108
    Catani, E. and Marengo, S.M. (eds.), La Cirenaica in eta antica, Atti del convegno internazionale di studi Macerata 18.-20.5.1995 (Macerata, 1998): 245, PL.3 (PART OF B)
    Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: PARIS, LOUVRE 5, III.HG.6, III.HG.7, PLS.(361,362) 5.8-14, 6.1 View Whole CVA Plates
    Kephalidou, E., Nikitis, Eikonographiki meleti tou archaiou ellinikou athlitismou (Thessaloniki, 1996): PL.53 (B)
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VIII, PL.227, ZEUS 189 (PART OF A)
    Lichtenberger, A. et al. (eds.), Das Diadem der Hellenistischen Herrscher. Ubernahme, Transformation oder Neuschopfung eines Herrschaftszeichens? (Bonn, 2012): 193, FIG.10 (B)
    Moreno, P. (ed.), Lisippo, l'arte e la fortuna (1995): 89-90, FIG.4.11.8 (B, PART OF B)
    Nikephoros: SPECIAL ISSUE 2012, 76 (PART OF B)
    Robertson, C.M., The art of vase-painting in classical Athens (Cambridge, 1992): 289, FIGS.292-293 (A, B)
    Valavanis, P., Games and sanctuaries in ancient Greece, Olympia, Delphi, Isthmia, Nemea, Athens (Los Angeles, 2004): 352-353, FIGS.503, 505 (COLOUR OF PARTS OF A AND B)
    Wünsche, R. and Knauss, F.S. (eds.), Lockender Lorbeer, Sport und Spiel in der Antike, Staatliche Antikensammlungen München (Munich, 2004): 241, FIG.24.31, 316, FIG.29.36 (B, PART OF B)
  • AVI Web: HTTPS://WWW.AVI.UNIBAS.CH/DB/SEARCHFORM.HTML?ID=6938
  • AVI Record Number: 6697
  • LIMC ID: 793
  • LIMC Web: HTTP://ARK.DASCH.SWISS/ARK:/72163/080E-73AEBCEF8F934-9
  • CAVI Collection: PARIS, LOUVRE MN 706.
  • CAVI Lemma: BF PANATHENAIC PRIZE AMPHORA. FROM BENGHAZI. NIKOMACHOS SERIES. 340/39: THEOPHRASTOS I ARCHON{1}.
  • CAVI Subject: A: ATHENA TO RIGHT; COLUMN FIGURES: LEFT: ATHENA; RIGHT: ZEUS. B: THE VICTOR IN THE FOOT RACE (THE PROCLAMATION): TWO ATHLETES WITH PALM BRANCHES; TWO JUDGES.
  • CAVI Inscriptions: A: TO RIGHT OF THE LEFT COLUMN, KION.: των Αθηνηθεν αθλων. TO RIGHT OF THE RIGHT COLUMN, KION.: Θεοφραστος αρχων.
  • CAVI Footnotes: {1} SO BEAZLEY (SEE AJA) WITH BRAUCHITSCH AND SCHMIDT; SPEIER, SCHEFOLD AND SüSSEROT ASSIGN THE VASE TO THEOPHRASTOS II, 313/2. (FOR BIBL. SEE ABV). ESCHBACH ALSO ASSIGNS TO THEOPHRASTOS I.
  • CAVI Number: 6697
  • AVI Bibliography: BRAUCHITSCH (1910), 58/93, FIG. 15. — [[D.M. ROBINSON (1910), 425/10]]. — E. POTTIER, CVA LOUVRE 5, FRANCE 8 (1928), III H G, PLS. 5,8-14 AND 6,1. — SCHEFOLD (1934), 109 AND 111F. — SMETS (1936), 99/117. — PETERS (1942), 147. — BEAZLEY (1943A), 458/3 AND 462-65. — ABV (1956), 415/3. — ESCHBACH (1986), 90/CAT. 57, PL. 25,1-2 (DETAILS OF A). — ADD.[2] (1989), 108. — ROBERTSON (1992), 285 (DATING) AND 288-89, FIGS. 292-93.
  • 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/373757
  • Coordinates: 32.1166667938232,20.0666666030884
  • Pleiades Coordinates: 32.1139055,20.0699815
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