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310069, ATHENIAN, London, British Museum, London, British Museum, London, British Museum, 1847,0806.26

  • Vase Number: 310069
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: BLACK-FIGURE
  • Shape Name: AMPHORA, NECK
  • Date: -575 TO -525
  • Attributed To: KYLLENIOS P by BOTHMER
    TYRRHENIAN GROUP by HOLWERDA
  • Decoration: A1: FIGHT, WARRIORS, ONE FALLEN, ONE WITH BOEOTIAN SHIELD, NONSENSE INSCRIPTIONS
    B1: ATHLETES, JUMPING WITH HALTERES, WRESTLING, YOUTH WITH JAVELINS, DRAPED MAN WITH STAFF, NONSENSE INSCRIPTIONS
    Frieze below: ANIMAL FRIEZES, FLORAL, LOTUS AND PALMETTE CROSS, SIRENS, PANTHERS, GOATS, BIRDS, RAMS
  • Last Recorded Collection: London, British Museum: B48
  • Previous Collections:
  • Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 100.70
    Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 38
    Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 27
    Chiarini, S., The so-called Nonsense Inscriptions on Ancient Greek Vases, Between Paideia and Paidiá (Leiden, 2018): 142-143, FIGS.28A-B (COLOUR OF A AND PART OF B1)
    Faulkner, N., A visitor's guide to the ancient Olympics (New Haven and London, 2012): 215, FIG.31 (PART OF B1)
    Filser, W., Die Elite Athens auf der attischen Luxuskeramik, Image & Context 16 (Berlin, Munich, Boston, 2017): 287, FIG.138 (B1)
    Immerwahr, H., Attic Script, A Survey (Oxford, 1990): PL.11.43 (PART OF B1)
    Laser, S., Sport und Spiel, Archeologia Homerica (Göttingen, 1987): 71, FIG.26A (DRAWING OF B)
    Oakley, J.H., A Guide to Scenes of Daily Life on Athenian Vases (Madison, 2020): 141, FIG.7.12 (PART OF B)
    Spivey, N. and Rasmussen, T. (eds.) Looking at Greek Vases (Cambridge, 1991): 141, FIG.59 (B)
    Stuttard, D., Power Games, Ritual and Rivalry at the Ancient Greek Olympics (London, 2012): 96-97, FIG.36 (COLOUR OF PART OF B1)
    Tzachou-Alexandri, O., Mind and Body, Athletic Contests in Ancient Greece (Athens, 1988): 254, NO.144 (PART OF A)
    Vanhove, D. (ed.), El deporte en la Grecia antigua, la genesis del olimpismo, May 10 - August 9, 1992 (Barcelona, 1992): 108, FIG.10 (DRAWING OF B)
    Vanhove, D. (ed.), Le Sport dans la Grece Antique, Du Jeu a la Competition, 23 Janvier- 19 Avril 1992 (Gent, 1992): 108, FIG.10 (DRAWING OF PART OF B1)
    Wünsche, R. and Knauss, F.S. (eds.), Lockender Lorbeer, Sport und Spiel in der Antike, Staatliche Antikensammlungen München (Munich, 2004): 122, FIG.14.11 (PART OF B1)
  • AVI Web: HTTPS://WWW.AVI.UNIBAS.CH/DB/SEARCHFORM.HTML?ID=4401
  • AVI Record Number: 4229
  • British Museum Link: HTTPS://WWW.BRITISHMUSEUM.ORG/COLLECTION/OBJECT/G_1847-0806-26
  • CAVI Collection: LONDON B 48.
  • CAVI Lemma: BF TYRRHENIAN NECK AMPHORA. KYLLENIOS PAINTER (BOTHMER). SECOND QUARTER SIXTH. 560-550. LATE PERIOD (KLUIVER).
  • CAVI Subject: A: ATHLETES AND TRAINERS. B: FIGHT OF SEVEN WARRIORS.
  • CAVI Inscriptions: A: INSCRIPTIONS NEAR THE FIGURES: ΣΙΧΕΟΣ (BEARDED WRESTLER). Hιπ[π]οστενες (YOUNG WRESTLER). ΟΥΕΡΠΟΣ (BEARDED JAVELIN THROWER). Ο̣Λ̣ΥΠΟΚΣΥΥΧΥ (JUMPER). ΟΥΠΕΣΟΕ, RETR. (BEARDED TRAINER). (.)[---]Ρ̣ΙΩ(.) (BEARDED DISCUS THROWER). B: NEAR THE FIGURES: ΠΟΕΟ[.]. ΠΙϘΕΣΟ[.]. (.)ΥΙΣΟΕΣ. ΟΥ(.)ΟΓΠΟ̣[.]. Π̣[.]ΠΟΕΣΟΓ. ONE MORE, RUBBED OFF. ALL SIGMAS ARE THREE-STROKE. [[ADDENDA:]] C] B: Hιποστενες AMONG SEVERAL NONSENSE INSCRIPTIONS TRANSCRIBED IN ATTSCR [BUT NOT IN K.]{1}.
  • CAVI Footnotes: {1} THE LAST LETTER OF THE NAME IS NOT A BLOB [AS ATTSCR STATES], BUT IS "WRITTEN ON A SPOT NOW BROKEN AND REPAIRED." [HENCE READ: [ς] OR (ς)].
  • CAVI Comments: = 1847.8-626. K. DOES NOT GIVE NONSENSE INSCRIPTIONS. THE INSCRIPTIONS TAKE THE PLACE OF NAMES; WRITTEN BY AN ILLITERATE? I AM NOT SURE THAT THERE IS A `NAME' FOR EACH PERSON. Hιπ[π]οσθενες: SEE LGPN II AND PA 7666 = DAA, NO. 90 (DATED BEGINNING FIFTH), IG I(2) 506 (PART) = I/3. 762. FOR στ = σθ SEE THREATTE (1980), 559.
  • CAVI Number: 4229
  • AVI Bibliography: BOTHMER (1944), 168/4. — ABV (1956), 100/70. — PARA. (1971), 38. — ADD.[2] (1989), 11 (BIBL.). — ATTSCR (1990), NO. 181, FIG. 43. — KLUIVER (1996), 2/116 AND 5/116 (INSCRIPTIONS DONE BY C.J. RUIJGH (NOT ILL.).
  • CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
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Last updated 15/12/2025 06:57:00. Approved by Mannack, Thomas. Copyright © 2003-2026 Classical Art Research Centre, University of Oxford.

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