Decoration: A: ATHENA TO RIGHT BETWEEN COLUMNS SURMOUNTED BY ATHENA WITH BRANCH WITH OWL AND TRIPTOLEMOS WITH SHEAF OF CORN IN WINGED CHARIOT AND INCENSE BURNER B: ATHLETES, YOUTHS, SOME BOXING, ONE WITH THONG, NIKE WITH PALM LEAF
Last Recorded Collection: London, British Museum: B607
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 415.4 , 696 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 178 Bentz, M., Panathenäische Preisamphoren, Eine athenische Vasengattung und ihre Funktion vom 6.-4. Jahrhundert v. Chr. 18. Beih. zur Antiken Kunst (Basel, 1998): PLS.119-120.4086 (A, B) Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 108 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: LONDON, BRITISH MUSEUM 1, IIIHF.3, IIIHF.4, PL.(33) 3.1A-B View Whole CVA Plates Hesperia, The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens: 26 (1957) PL.76.1 (PART OF A) Himmelmann, N., Herrscher und Athlet, die Bronzen vom Quirinal (Milan, 1989): 157, FIG.61, 204.NO.2 (B) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VIII, PL.35, TRIPTOLEMOS 77 (PART OF A) Oakley, J.H., A Guide to Scenes of Daily Life on Athenian Vases (Madison, 2020): 137, FIG.7.7 (B) Robertson, C.M., The art of vase-painting in classical Athens (Cambridge, 1992): 291, FIG.295 (B) Stuttard, D., Power Games, Ritual and Rivalry at the Ancient Greek Olympics (London, 2012): 141, FIG.52 (COLOUR OF B) Tsaknis, N., Trophies of the Argonauts (Volos, 2004): 86-87 (COLOUR OF B) Valavanis, P., Games and sanctuaries in ancient Greece, Olympia, Delphi, Isthmia, Nemea, Athens (Los Angeles, 2004): 429, FIG.619 (COLOUR OF B)
CAVI Subject: A: ATHENA TO RIGHT; COLUMN FIGURES: AT LEFT: ATHENA. AT RIGHT: TRIPTOLEMOS.
B: THREE BOXERS; NIKE.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: TO RIGHT OF THE LEFT COLUMN, KION.: Πυθοδηλος αρχων. TO RIGHT OF THE RIGHT
COLUMN, KION.: τον Αθενεθεν αθλον.
CAVI Comments: = 1888.11-15.5. A MUCH PUBLISHED VASE. THE VASE WAS MADE FOR THE PANATHENAEA
OF 334; THE BOXERS HAVE NEW ARMORED GLOVES, WHICH THEY HAD NOT IN 338
(ROBERTSON). THE ARCHON INSCRIPTION IS IONIC, THE ATHLA INSCRIPTION, ATTIC
EXCEPT FOR IONIC LAMBDA. "DIE BUCHSTABEN DER BEISCHRIFT [SIC] SIND KLEIN UND
ZIERLICH UND STEHEN DAMIT IM GEGENSATZ ZU DENEN DER üBRIGEN AMPHOREN DIESES
JAHRGANGS." (ESCHBACH).
CAVI Number: 4370
AVI Bibliography: H.B. WALTERS IN BM CAT. B (1893), 607 (BIBL.). — [[D.M. ROBINSON (1910),
425/11]]. — A.H. SMITH, CVA LONDON 1, GREAT BRITAIN 1 (1925), III H F, PL.
3,1A-B. — BEAZLEY (1943A), 458/4. — ABV (1956), 415/4, 696. — PARA. (1971), 178.
— BOARDMAN (1974), FIG. 305 (A). — ESCHBACH (1986), 109/CAT. 63, PL. 28,1-2
(DETAILS OF A). — ADD.[2] (1989), 108 (MUCH BIBL.). — ROBERTSON (1992), 288,
FIG. 295 (B).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
