5688, ATHENIAN, Geneva, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, MF151

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Vase Number: 5688
Fabric: ATHENIAN
Technique: BLACK-FIGURE
Shape Name: AMPHORA, PANATHENAIC PRIZE
Date: -550 to -500
Decoration: A: ATHENA, SHIELD DEVICE, PEGASOS
B: ATHLETES, RUNNING
Current Collection: Geneva, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire: MF151
Publication Record: Acta ad Archaeologiam et Artium Historiam Pertinentia: 8 (1978) AT 24, PL.10 (A, B)
Bentz, M., Panathenäische Preisamphoren, Eine athenische Vasengattung und ihre Funktion vom 6.-4. Jahrhundert v. Chr. 18. Beih. zur Antiken Kunst (Basel, 1998): PLS.35-36.6128 (A, B)
Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: GENEVA, MUSEE D'ART ET D'HISTOIRE 2, 25, BEILAGE F.4, F.5, PL.(112) 56.1-3 View Whole CVA Plates
AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=3963
AVI Record Number: 3784
CAVI Collection: Geneva, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire MF 151.
CAVI Lemma: BF Panathenaic prize amphora. Unattributed{1}. Third quarter sixth.
CAVI Subject: A: Athena; shield device: pegasos. B: foot race: four sprinters.
CAVI Inscriptions: On the BG band on the interior of the mouth, Gr.: ΙΙΙΜΕ{3}. A: to right of left column: τον Αθενεθεν αθλον.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} attributed to a painter Sikelos by Brandt (cf. Naples 112,848, ABV 403/1). {2} this information from J. Binder. {3} two short vertical strokes followed by a long one; plus the two letters.
CAVI Comments: Poorly preserved. The facs. is inaccurate. For attribution to a painter other than Sikelos see Geneva MF 150. Johnston considers ΜΕ a proper name abbreviation; see p. 213. The same letters appear on the BF column krater Geneva inv. 15,053, CVA, Switzerland 3, pls. 59,1-4 and 61,2, Johnston (1979), ibid. no. 16 (Dip. in red; retr.).
CAVI Number: 3784
AVI Bibliography: BADB 5688. — Photo Giraudon 4955 (A){2}. — Smets (1936), 91ff., no. 39. — Brandt (1978), 8/76, pl. 10. — Johnston (1979), 135/10E 20. — C. Dunant and L. Kahil, CVA Geneva 2, Switzerland 3 (1980), pls. 56,1-3 and F,4-5, p. 25 (facs.).
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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