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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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