Decoration: A: HORSEMAN B: DRAPED YOUTH WITH STAFF
Last Recorded Collection: Great Britain, private
Previous Collections:
Switzerland, Tessin
Lugano, private, Bolla
Oxford, Ashmolean Museum: LOAN
Basel, market, Münzen und Medaillen A.G.
Oxford, Ashmolean Museum: LOAN399
Publication Record: American Journal of Archaeology: 94 (1990), 617, FIGS.3-4 (A, GRAFFITO) Das Tier in der Antike, University of Zurich 21.9-17.11.1974: PL.42.248 (A) Kunstwerke der Antike, Münzen und Medaillen, A.G., Basel, sale catalogue: 70 (1986), PL.51, NO.216 (A, B) Linders, T. and Alroth, B. (eds.), Economics of Cult in the Ancient Greek World, Proceedings of the Uppsala Symposium 1990 (Uppsala, 1992): 56, FIGS.4-5 (A, UF) Metzler, D. (ed.), Mazzo di Fiori, Festschrift für Herbert Hoffmann (Ruhpolding and Mainz, 2010): 352, FIG.5 (A) Oakley, J.H., The Achilles Painter (Mainz, 1997): FIG.28C, PLS.33B, 51C (A, B, PROFILE) Revue des Etudes Anciennes: 97 (1995) 247, FIGS.1-2 (A, UF) Rubel, A. (ed.), Michael Vickers. Parerga, Selected Essays on Literature, Art and Archaeology, Romanian Academy, Institute of Archaeology of Iasi (Bucharest and Braila, 2019): 39-40, FIGS.4-5 (COLOUR OF A, UF) Vickers, M. and Gill, J., Artful Crafts, Ancient Greek Silverware and Pottery (Oxford, 1994): 87, FIGS.4.3-4.4 (A, UF) Vickers, M., Ancient Greek Pottery (Oxford, 1999): 48, NO.36 (COLOUR OF A, UF) Vickers, M., Skeuomorphismus oder die Kunst, aus wenig viel zu machen, 16. Trierer Winckelmannsprogramm (Mainz, 1998): PL.8.1-2 (A, UF)
CAVI Lemma: RF pelike. Achilles Painter. Third quarter fifth. Ca. 440 (Cahn). 440-435
(Oakley).
CAVI Subject: A: young horseman galloping. B: draped youth with stick.
CAVI Inscriptions: Under foot, Gr.: ΜΑ τι[μη] (3 1/4 obols) followed by xi turned 90 degrees,
plus one vertical stroke.
CAVI Comments: Johnston in `Auktion' (by letter) reads MA as an introductory monogram of
type Johnston (1979), 2B; then the price of this vase is 3 1/4 obols, which is
high; he does not comment on the ff. signs. Vickers reads the price as for four
items, obviously interpeting the `xi' plus the extra line as `four' and ignoring
the horizontals of the first two signs (drachmai?). Oakley: ΜΑ is perhaps an
abbreviation of a name (Johnston type 2B, 89-90 and 194), followed by τι[μη] and
two-dot punctuation. Then 3 horizontal lines and C; four vertical lines, the
first three of which are crossed by a horizontal line. [This should be a price
Gr.] Oakley, however, tries other explanations (see p. 16) and believes the
reading is uncertain. - The aim of Gill and Vickers is to show how cheap vases
were.
CAVI Number: 5852
AVI Bibliography: M&M-Auction (1986), 75/216 (note by Johnston). — Vickers (1990), 616, figs.
3-4 (fig. 3 is a photo of the Gr.; fig. 4 is A). — Gill (1991), 32, pl. 1. —
Oakley (1997), 14-15 and n. 34, 123/68, fig. 28C (profile), pls. 33B (A) and 51C
(B).; pp. 14-16 with nn. 33-35, and 15 chart 5 (dr. of Gr.) (bibl.).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
