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9017572, ATHENIAN, Boston (MA), Museum of Fine Arts, 95.42
Vase Number: 9017572Fabric: ATHENIANTechnique: RED-FIGUREShape Name: LEKYTHOSDate: -525 to -475Decoration: Body: ATHLETES, ONE RUNNING WITH JAVELINS (ACONTISTS), ONE JUMPING, ONE WITH DISKOS (DISKOBOLOS)Last Recorded Collection: Boston (MA), Museum of Fine Arts: 95.42AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=2788 AVI Record Number: 2641CAVI Collection: Boston 95.42.CAVI Lemma: RF lekythos. From Athens. Unattributed. Last quarter sixth. 520-510
(Beazley).CAVI Subject: Four athletes practicing portions of the pentathlon (jump, javelin, discus,
running with javelins). At left, a goal; at right, trainer and goal.CAVI Inscriptions: nonsense: scattered letters among the figures: (ρ). π. σ(θ)ω. ρ. οσ. ο. οσ.
οτυσ. οσ, retr. υ. χυ. ουε. σο. οτυσο.CAVI Comments: Mixed alphabet (omega!). The first rho smeared. The theta could be a phi.CAVI Number: 2641AVI Bibliography: CB (1931–63), i, no. 15; p. 12 (dr.). — AttScr (1990), no. 1151.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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