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301077, ATHENIAN, Boston (MA), Museum of Fine Arts, 98.923

  • Vase Number: 301077
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: BLACK-FIGURE
  • Shape Name: AMPHORA, NECK
  • Date: -575 TO -525
  • Attributed To: BOTKIN CLASS by BEAZLEY
  • Decoration: A,B: FIGHT, WARRIORS, ONE WITH BOEOTIAN SHIELD, DEVICES, PANTHER PROTOME, WHIRLIGIG
  • Last Recorded Collection: Boston (MA), Museum of Fine Arts: 98.923
  • Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 169.3
    Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 71
    Bothmer, D. von, The Amasis Painter and his World (Malibu, 1985): 127, FIG.76 (UH)
    Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 48
    Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: BOSTON, MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS 1, 18-19, FIG.24, PL.(647) 25.1-3 View Whole CVA Plates
    Jackson, D. A., East Greek Influence on Attic Vases, Supplementary Paper 13 (London, 1976): 31, FIG.16 (AH)
    Lang-Auinger, C. and Trinkl, E. (eds.), Phyta kai Zoia. Pflanzen und Tiere auf griechischen Vasen, Beihefte zum Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Österreich, Band 2 (Vienna, 2015): 213, FIG.3 (UH, COLOUR OF A)
    Muth, S., Gewalt im Bild, Das Phänomen der medialen Gewalt im Athen des 6. und 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. (Berlin, 2008): 174, FIG.94 (A)
    Oakley, J.H. et al., Athenian Potters and Painters, The Conference Proceedings (Oxford, 1997): 30-31, FIGS.29-30, 35 (A, AH, PROFILE)
    Seidensticker, B. and Vöhler, M. (eds.), Gewalt und Ästhetik, Zur Gewalt und ihrer Darstellung in der griechischen Klassik (Berlin, New York, 2006): 266, FIG.5 (B)
    Tsingarida, A. (ed.), Shapes and Uses of Greek Vases (7th-4th centuries B.C.), Proceedings of the Symposium held at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 27-29 April 2006 (Brussels, 2009): 44, 46, PLS.1.3, 3.2 (A, UH)
    Vermeule, E., Aspects of Death in Early Greek Art and Poetry (Berkeley, 1979): 100, FIG.16 (A)
  • AVI Web: HTTPS://WWW.AVI.UNIBAS.CH/DB/SEARCHFORM.HTML?ID=2816
  • AVI Record Number: 2669
  • CAVI Collection: BOSTON 98.923.
  • CAVI Lemma: BF AMPHORA. UNATTRIBUTED{1}; BOTKIN CLASS. THIRD QUARTER SIXTH. 550-540.
  • CAVI Subject: A: DUEL OF TWO HOPLITES. B: SIMILAR (THE RIGHT SHIELD DEVICE: LEOPARD).
  • CAVI Inscriptions: NONSENSE: A: BEHIND THE LEFT HOPLITE'S HEAD: ϝκεκν. BETWEEN HEADS, CLOSER TO THE RIGHT HOPLITE: γςκνγεο. B: IN THE SAME POSITION AS THE SECOND INSCRIPTION ON A: ϝκεκϝκμ.
  • CAVI Footnotes: {1} THIS VASE "BEARS SOME RESEMBLANCE TO THE WORK OF THE PHRYNOS PAINTER" (BEAZLEY).
  • CAVI Comments: ARE THE INSCRIPTIONS INTENDED FOR THE "NAMES" OF THE HOPLITES? LARGE LETTERS. DIGAMMA U-SHAPED. THE POSSIBILITY THAT THE DIGAMMAS ARE EPSILONS IS NOT TO BE EXCLUDED.
  • CAVI Number: 2669
  • AVI Bibliography: BEAZLEY (1931C), 284. — ABV (1956), 169/3. — PARA. (1971), 71. — H. HOFFMANN ET AL., CVA BOSTON 1, USA 14 (1973), PL. 25. — ADD.[2] (1989), 48. — ATTSCR (1990), NO. 959.
  • CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
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Last updated 15/12/2025 06:24:00. Approved by Mannack, Thomas. Copyright © 2003-2026 Classical Art Research Centre, University of Oxford.

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