Decoration: A: ATHENA BETWEEN COLUMNS SURMOUNTED BY PLOUTOS (TWICE) WITH SCEPTRE AND CORNUCOPIA B: ATHLETES, MEN RUNNING
Last Recorded Collection: Detroit (MI), Institute of Arts: 50.193
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 412.3 Bentz, M., Panathenäische Preisamphoren, Eine athenische Vasengattung und ihre Funktion vom 6.-4. Jahrhundert v. Chr. 18. Beih. zur Antiken Kunst (Basel, 1998): PLS.99-100.4004 (A, B) Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 107 Herrmann, J. and Kondoleon, C., (eds.), Games for the Gods, The Greek Athlete and the Olympic Spirit (Boston, 2004): 62, NO.26 (COLOUR OF B) Madigan, B., Corinthian and Attic Vases in the Detroit Institute of Arts, Geometric, Black-Figure, and Red-Figure (Leiden and Boston, 2008): FIGS.24-25 (A, B) Neils, J. et al., Goddess and Polis, The Panathenaic Festival in Ancient Athens (Princeton, 1992): 32-33, 83 (COLOUR OF A, PART OF A, B)
CAVI Collection: Detroit, Institute of Arts 50.193.
CAVI Lemma: BF Panathenaic prize amphora. From Benghazi (near). Asteios Group (Beazley).
Second quarter fourth (?). 373/2 (?). 392/1 (Eschbach, Neils).
CAVI Subject: A: Athena. B: foot race: five runners.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: τον Αθενεθεν αθλον.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} so Neils, but this is not certain as the archon name on Berlin 3980
(q.v.) is quite fragmentary. {2} Neils, p. 32, though distorted, shows the
letter forms: the strokes of the letters are sometimes close to calligraphic and
slightly disjointed, e.g. in epsilon, theta, nu, etc. Alpha lacks the diagonal.
Lambda has the second bar in the shape of a hook. This is like writing with a
pen.
CAVI Comments: Eschbach 18 attributes to the same year as Berlin inv. 3980, i.e. 392/1, on
the basis of the column figures (which he thinks changed for each year). Neils
(obviously following him) also dates to 392/1, in the archonship of
Philokles(1), because of the column figure of Ploutos on both columns. Beazley
attributed to Asteios Group of 373/2, the year of Asteios' archonship. E. Bell,
in `Midwestern' 222/125 (ill.) dated the vase to 375-370. Attic except Ionic
lambda; the second o seems = a circular phi{2}.
