CAVI Collection: Amsterdam, Allard Pierson Museum 400.
CAVI Lemma: BF cup (type A or proto-A). From Athens. Painter of New York 06.1021.159
(Beazley). Mid-third or fourth quarter sixth or slightly later (CVA).
CAVI Subject: Int.: tondo, preserving very slight traces of painting. Ext.: A: in the
center, winged figure (Nike) in knielauf to right; on each side nude and draped
youths (three on left, four on right: athletes). B: in the center, a gap:
similar to A, but only three figures at right. Under each handle: swan.
CAVI Inscriptions: A, B, each: numerous rows of dots, mainly vertical, but also at various
angles; they fill almost all available space.
CAVI Comments: Ex Scheurleer collection; bought in Athens 1902. Acquired by Allard Pierson
in 1934. S.-B. thinks the winged figure is Nike, messenger of victory in games.
Similar rows of dots also on New York 06.1021.159, the only other vase
attributewd to this painter. - Similar to Rhitsona cup BSA 14, pl. 9,1, but
Attic (Scheurleer).
CAVI Number: 0130
AVI Bibliography: E. Schmidt (1909), 273. — Lunsingh Scheurleer (1909), 380. — C.W. Lunsingh
Scheurleer, CVA The Hague 1, Netherlands 1 (1927), III H e, pl. 1,3. — ABV
(1956), 199/2. — LIMC vi (1992), 858, Nike 66. — J.T. Smit-Lub, CVA Amsterdam 2,
Netherlands 8 (1996), pls. 120,4-5 and 121-22 (all but 120,4 show inscriptions),
fig. 48 (profile) (much bibl.).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
