Decoration: A,B: ATHLETES, BOXING, BETWEEN DRAPED YOUTHS WITH STAFFS (?), AMPHORA
Last Recorded Collection: Munich, Antikensammlungen: 2220
Previous Collections:
Munich, Antikensammlungen: 593
Publication Record: Antike Welt: 3 (2010) 91 (COLOUR OF A) Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: MUNICH, ANTIKENSAMMLUNGEN 11, 39-40, BEILAGE 7.4, PLS.(2799,2800) 30.6, 31.1-4 View Whole CVA Plates Filser, W., Die Elite Athens auf der attischen Luxuskeramik, Image & Context 16 (Berlin, Munich, Boston, 2017): 292, FIG.144 (A) Neils, J. et al., Goddess and Polis, The Panathenaic Festival in Ancient Athens (Princeton, 1992): 51, FIG.30 (A) Vierneisel, K., and Kaeser, B. (eds.), Kunst der Schale, Kultur des Trinkens (Munich, 1990): 32, 131, 158, FIGS.2.15, 18.3, 25.4 (A,B) Wünsche, R. and Knauss, F.S. (eds.), Lockender Lorbeer, Sport und Spiel in der Antike, Staatliche Antikensammlungen München (Munich, 2004): 165, FIGS.18.11-12, 314, FIG.29.31, 478, NO.63 (A, B, COLOUR OF A, PART OF A AND B)
CAVI Lemma: BF band cup. From Vulci. Unattributed; recalls Amasis Painter and Taleides
Painter (Fellmann). Third quarter sixth.
CAVI Subject: Handle zone: A: two boxers facing; between them a Panathenaic amphora as the
prize; at left and right, a draped male with his staff (`judge'); handle
palmettes. B: similar (the upper part of the right boxer missing).
CAVI Inscriptions: Handle zone: mainly nonsense: A: between the left-hand palmette and the left
`judge': χεο(.)ο(.). Between the left judge and the left boxer: χονιχ(.)(.),
retr.(?){1}. Above the amphora: χαιρε. Betweeen the right boxer and the right
`judge': χο(ν)ιχ(ν)(.){2}. Between the right `judge' and the right handle
palmette: χνχο(ν)ιχ{3}. B: four similar nonsense inscriptions, partly
fragmentary. Over the amphora: χϝι[--].
CAVI Footnotes: {1} if retr., the inscription faces the boxer and nu is of the regular
shape.; if not retr., the nu looks more like a sideways sigma; this is true of
all the nu's. {2} if retr., the inscription would face the right `judge', and
the nu's would be OK. {3} uncertain reading.
CAVI Comments: The letters are small and degenerate into blotches. Fellmann notes that all
inscriptions begin with chi, and twice on A with χονιχ; on B, χϝι[--] is no
doubt for χαι[ρε]. On B, the nonsense inscriptions twice begin with χν, once
with χονι and once they end in χονι. Fellmann's connection of the band cup with
both the Amasis Painter and Taleides Painter is based on the Getty lekythos
Malibu 76.AE.48 by the latter, signed on the foot by Amasis. This is doubtful,
as the inscription is I think suspect. Neils connects the subjects with the
Panathenaea.
CAVI Number: 5245
AVI Bibliography: Hackl (1908), 93. — B. Fellmann, CVA Munich 11, Germany 57 (1989), pls. 30,6
and 31,1-4, Beilage 7,4. — Vierneisel–Kaeser (1990), fig. 18.3 (A, large) and
25.4a-b (A, B, small). — Neils (1992), 50-51, fig. 20 (A).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
