Attributed To:Connected with ROBINSON GROUP by BEAZLEY
Decoration: A: ATHENA BETWEEN COLUMNS SURMOUNTED BY COCKS, DEVICE, WREATH B: MUSIC CONTEST, YOUTHS, ONE PLAYING KITHARA ON PLATFORM, ONE SEATED ON CHARIOT, MAN WITH STAFF (JUDGE), ALL DRAPED
Last Recorded Collection: St. Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum: 17794
Previous Collections:
St. Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum: 17295
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 410.2 Bentz, M., Panathenäische Preisamphoren, Eine athenische Vasengattung und ihre Funktion vom 6.-4. Jahrhundert v. Chr. 18. Beih. zur Antiken Kunst (Basel, 1998): PL.81 (A, B) Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 107 Maas, M. and Snyder, J.M, Stringed Instruments of Ancient Greece (New Haven, 1989): 75, FIG.10 (B)
CAVI Lemma: BF Panathenaic prize amphora. From Tanais. Connected with Robinson Group.
Last quarter fifth. 430-425 (Beazley (1943a)).
CAVI Subject: A: Athena. B: citharode.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: τον Α[θ]ενεθεν αθλον.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} the number given there is 17,294.
CAVI Comments: Undersized but has a prize inscription; if the inscription is genuine, oil
instead of a gold crown was awarded for poetry at one festival (Neils). Davison,
JHS 78 (1958) 38, suggests the St. Petersburg amphora is an aberration caused by
the Peloponnesian War when precious metals were needed for other purposes.
Another prize was a bronze hydria (Shapiro).
CAVI Number: 7413
AVI Bibliography: Smets (1936), 95/84, pl. 37 (B){1}. — Peters (1942a), 93-96{1}. — Beazley
(1943a), 453. — ABV (1956), 410/2. — G.R. Edwards (1957), 328 n. 29 (mention). —
Add.[2] (1989), 107. — Neils (1992), 35 and n. 38 (wrong number). — Shapiro
(1992), 58 and [[200]] n. 46.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
