Decoration: A: ATHENA BETWEEN COLUMNS SURMOUNTED BY COCKS, DEVICE, PEGASOS B: ATHLETES, MEN RUNNING
Last Recorded Collection: Norwich, Castle Museum: 26.49
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 404.16 Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, 1st ed. (Oxford, 1942): 131.4 Bentz, M., Panathenäische Preisamphoren, Eine athenische Vasengattung und ihre Funktion vom 6.-4. Jahrhundert v. Chr. 18. Beih. zur Antiken Kunst (Basel, 1998): PLS.44-45.5011 (A, B) Greek Vases in the J.Paul Getty Museum: 102, 109, FIGS.6, 14 (A, B)
CAVI Inscriptions: A: STANDARD: τον Αθενεθεν αθλον.
CAVI Comments: THE INSCRIPTION ALMOST FILLS THE SPACE. REGULAR ATHLA INSCRIPTION EXCEPT THAT
THE LAST OMICRON HAS A DOT IN IT (NEAR THE CIRCLE). HENCE BENTZ READS: αθλθν,
ASSUMING MISWRITING. BUT THE DOT MAY BE A DRIP, AS THE OTHER THETAS HAVE MUCH
MORE REGULAR AND THICKER DOTS.
CAVI Number: 5785
AVI Bibliography: ABV (1956), 404/16. — MATHESON (1989), 102, FIG. 6 (A); 109, FIG. 14 (B). —
M. BENTZ (1998), 139/5.011, PLS. 44-45 (44 IS A SHOWING INSCRIPTION WELL)
(BIBL.).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
