Decoration: A: ATHENA BETWEEN COLUMNS SURMOUNTED BY COCKS, SHIELD DEVICE, HEADS OF PANTHERS B: ATHLETES, MEN RUNNING
Last Recorded Collection: Munich, Antikensammlungen: 9399
Publication Record: Bentz, M., Panathenäische Preisamphoren, Eine athenische Vasengattung und ihre Funktion vom 6.-4. Jahrhundert v. Chr. 18. Beih. zur Antiken Kunst (Basel, 1998): PL.10.6017 (A, B) Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: MUNICH, ANTIKENSAMMLUNGEN 14, 61-62, FIGS.9, 10, PL.(3998) 58.1-2 View Whole CVA Plates Wünsche, R. and Knauss, F.S. (eds.), Lockender Lorbeer, Sport und Spiel in der Antike, Staatliche Antikensammlungen München (Munich, 2004): 473, NO.17, 87, FIG.11.8 (A, B, COLOUR OF B)
CAVI Lemma: Frs. of BF Panathenaic prize amphora. From Vulci. Unattributed. Ca. 530
(Bentz).
CAVI Subject: A: Athena to left; parts of both columns. B: Foot race (Kurtzstreckenlauf):
remains of four bearded runners to right.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: to right of left column, but facing Athena: τον Αθενε[θεν αθλον], retr. B:
above the figure, horizontal: [στ]αδ[ιον] α[ν]δρο̅ν.
CAVI Comments: Formerly Candelori Collection? The phs. show all the letters except barely a
trace of the nu of τον. Attic alphabet. Nu near 7 in chart in AttScr but low and
with soft corners.
CAVI Number: 5368a
AVI Bibliography: Gerhard (1830), 220/18? (Bothmer). — Smets (1936), .... no. 8. — Brandt
(1978), cat. 27. — M. Bentz (1998), 125/6.017, pl. 10 (A, B, both show
inscriptions).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
