CAVI Lemma: Fragmentary BF Panathenaic prize amphora. From Athens, Philopappos Hill,
1961. Unattributed{1}. Hellenistic. 150-140 (Metaxa-Prokopiou).
CAVI Subject: A: Athena to right, no columns. B: Pentathlon: column, on which a shield with
a gorgoneion as device; trainer to right; acontist to right; discobolus with
spear and discus to left.
CAVI Inscriptions: B: along the left margin, starting at the level of the column capital,
kionedon: των Αθηνη[θ]εν αθλων. Along the right margin, starting at the top,
kionedon: [αγω]νοθετ[ο]υντος Αδ̣ε̣ιμαντου.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} M.-P.: same workshop as the Ariarathes amphora, Mitsos (1948–9), 5-9 and
S. Karouzou (1948–9), 10-32 (CAVI 198); other parallels, Metaxa-Prokopiou
(1970), 98. This would be Ariarathes V Philopator, 163-130.
CAVI Comments: Calligraphic script with curved strokes and apices. Adeimantos II: see LGPN,
s.v (7); for the pedigree, M.-P. refers to Roussel, Délos 103 and M. Thompson,
Hesp. 10 (1941) 220; she dates his agonothesia 150-140 B.C. - No doubt in the
Triti Ephoria. Ionic alphabet only. - Found with CAVI 1879a.
CAVI Number: 198a
AVI Bibliography: Metaxa-Prokopiou (1970), 97-99, fig. 1 (profile), pls. 30,2, 31-33,1 (A, B,
details of B with inscriptions, pls. 30,2 and 31,1).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
