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303150, ATHENIAN, London, British Museum, London, British Museum, London, British Museum, London, British Museum, 1873,0820.371

  • Vase Number: 303150
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: BLACK-FIGURE
  • Shape Name: AMPHORA, PANATHENAIC PRIZE
  • Provenance: ITALY, ETRURIA, CERVETERI
  • Date: -400 TO -300
  • Inscriptions: Inscription: PYTHODELOS ARCHON
    PYTHODELOS
  • Attributed To: NIKOMACHOS SERIES by BEAZLEY
  • 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
  • Previous Collections:
  • 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)
  • AVI Web: HTTPS://WWW.AVI.UNIBAS.CH/DB/SEARCHFORM.HTML?ID=4542
  • AVI Record Number: 4370
  • LIMC ID: 1040
  • LIMC Web: HTTP://ARK.DASCH.SWISS/ARK:/72163/080E-73B232A2C6D6E-4
  • British Museum Link: HTTPS://WWW.BRITISHMUSEUM.ORG/COLLECTION/OBJECT/G_1873-0820-371
  • CAVI Collection: LONDON B 607.
  • CAVI Lemma: BF PANATHENAIC PRIZE AMPHORA. FROM CERVETERI. NIKOMACHOS SERIES. 336/5: PYTHODELOS ARCHON.
  • 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)
  • Pleiades URI: HTTPS://PLEIADES.STOA.ORG/PLACES/422859
  • Coordinates: 41.992798,12.092428
  • Pleiades Coordinates: 42.0047755,12.10281885
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