Decoration: Body: DRAPED YOUTHS WITH TOY CHARIOTS WITH PALM LEAVES, BAG, SPONGE AND ARYBALLOS SUSPENDED Shoulder: LEOPARDS
Last Recorded Collection: Oxford, Ashmolean Museum: 1929.175
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 480.337, 1585 Burn, L. and Glynn, R., Beazley Addenda (Oxford, 1982): 121 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 247 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: OXFORD, ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM 2, 116, PL.(428) 64.1-7 View Whole CVA Plates Kunisch, N., Makron (Mainz, 1997): PL.70.205 Kurtz, D.C. (ed.), Greek Vases, Lectures by J.D. Beazley (Oxford, 1989): PL.80.2-4 Lambrugo, C., and Torre, C. (eds.), Il gioco e i giochi nel mondo antico. Tra cultura materiale e immateriale (Bari, 2013): 47, FIG.4A (PART OF BD) Metropolitan Museum Journal: 26 (1991) 74, FIG.42 (S) Vanhove, D. (ed.), El deporte en la Grecia antigua, la genesis del olimpismo, May 10 - August 9, 1992 (Barcelona, 1992): 21, FIG.4 (PART)
CAVI Lemma: RF aryballos. From Athens. Makron. First quarter fifth. 490-480. Hauptwerk I
(Kunisch).
CAVI Subject: A continuous scene: four boys playing with miniature chariots. Between the
last and the first boy, a bag and an aryballos with sponge and strigil.
CAVI Inscriptions: Between the bag and aryballos, very faint: ..δα...{1}. On the reserved mouth,
in BG relief lines, making a full circle and facing out, the last three letters
smaller: hιπποδαμας : καλος{2}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} BSA 206, n.9: "It would be natural to read [hιππο]δα[μας]," but there is
no trace of letters either at left or at right. The inscription slants upward.
{2} the punctuation does not mark the beginning of the inscription.
CAVI Comments: Add.[2] cites Bothmer as saying that the vase at Bloomfield Hill (Michigan),
Cranbrook 1940.40, mentioned in ARV[2] as having the same subject is a forgery
based on [Leningrad 558,] ARV[2] 810/20, which also has the same subject as the
Oxford vase. Attic alphabet. The delta in the field (but not that on the mouth)
dotted. Robertson (1992), 106 says that Bothmer has been misquoted as calling
this vase a forgery. A peculiar statement; what Bothmer said refers to another
vase, see Add.[2]. - Kunisch does not mention the letters ΔΑ. The
kalos-inscription has punctuation (see Kunisch, p. 8).
CAVI Number: 5970
AVI Bibliography: Beazley (1927–8), 187-93 and 206, n. 9, figs. 1-2, pls. 3-4. — J.D. Beazley,
CVA Oxford 2, Great Britain 9 (1931), III I, pl. 64,1-7. — ARV[2] (1963),
480/337. — Add.[2] (1989), 247. — Beazley (1989), 95, pl. 80,2-4. — AttScr
(1990), no. 569. — Cohen (1991), 71, fig. 42 (mouth). — Robertson (1992), 106. —
Kunisch (1997), 8, 20 n. 88, 181/205, pl. 70 (shows inscription).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
