Decoration: A: ATHENA BETWEEN COLUMNS SURMOUNTED BY COCKS, DEVICE, STAR B: ATHLETES, MEN, ONE DRAPED, WITH STAFF, SOME BOXING, ONE FALLEN
Last Recorded Collection: St. Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum: 17553
Previous Collections:
St. Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum: KU1913.4.389
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 411.2 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 177 Bentz, M., Panathenäische Preisamphoren, Eine athenische Vasengattung und ihre Funktion vom 6.-4. Jahrhundert v. Chr. 18. Beih. zur Antiken Kunst (Basel, 1998): PLS.92-93.5237 (A, B) Bulletin van de Vereeniging tot Bevordering der Kennis van de Antieke Beschaving: 88 (2013), 132, FIG.6A (A) Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 107 Oakley, J.H., A Guide to Scenes of Daily Life on Athenian Vases (Madison, 2020): 137, FIG.7.8 (B)
CAVI Lemma: BF Panathenaic prize amphora. From Kuban. Kuban Group. Late fifth. Mature
Group in Kuban Group; early fourth (Eschbach).
CAVI Subject: A: Athena. B: boxers.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: τον Αθενεθεν αθλον.
CAVI Comments: Eschbach dates Kuban Group later than Süsserot. By the same hand as London B
605 and B 606. But B 605 has the prize inscription in Ionic letters (see AttScr
(1990), no. 1214), whereas that on B 606 is fully Attic.
