Attributed To: KITTOS GROUP by BEAZLEY KITTOS by BEAZLEY KITTOS by SIGNATURE
Decoration: A: ATHENA BETWEEN COLUMNS SURMOUNTED BY TRIPTOLEMOS IN WINGED CHARIOT WITH SNAKES WITH SHEAF OF CORN (TWICE), DEVICE, STAR B: ATHLETES, DRAPED MAN WITH STAFF, YOUTHS, SOME WRESTLING
Last Recorded Collection: London, British Museum: 1866.4-15.248
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 413 , 413.1 Bentz, M., Panathenäische Preisamphoren, Eine athenische Vasengattung und ihre Funktion vom 6.-4. Jahrhundert v. Chr. 18. Beih. zur Antiken Kunst (Basel, 1998): PL.105.4013 (A, B) Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 107 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: LONDON, BRITISH MUSEUM 1, IIIHf.3, PL.(32) 2.1.4 View Whole CVA Plates Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VIII, PL.35, TRIPTOLEMOS 76 (PART OF A) Oakley, J.H. et al., Athenian Potters and Painters, The Conference Proceedings (Oxford, 1997): 88, FIGS.2-3 (A, B) Olivova, V., Sports and Games in the Ancient World (1984): 142, FIG.2 (B) Poliakoff, M. B., Combat Sports in the Ancient World, Competition, Violence and Culture (Yale, 1987): 40, FIG.30 (B) Robertson, C.M., The art of vase-painting in classical Athens (Cambridge, 1992): 278, FIGS.278-279 (A, B)
CAVI Lemma: PANATHENAIC PRIZE AMPHORA. FROM TEUCHEIRA. KITTOS GROUP{1}. KITTOS, POTTER.
CA. 366.
CAVI Subject: A: ATHENA. B: PANCRATION.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: KION.: BY THE LEFT COLUMN: τον Αθενεθεν : αθλον. BY THE RIGHT COLUMN:
Κιττος εποιησεν.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} FOR THE DIFFERENT HANDS IN THIS GROUP SEE ABV 413.
CAVI Comments: = 1866.4-15.248. DEV.[1] 97: THE FIRST OCCURRENCE OF KION. AJA 47: EXCEPT FOR
THE BURGON AMPHORA, THIS AND BRUSSELS A 1703 [OF THE SAME GROUP] ARE THE ONLY
PANATHENAICS WHICH HAVE PUNCTUATION. THE ATHLA INSCRIPTION IS ATTIC WITH IONIC
LAMBDA; THE SIGNATURE IS IONIC. THE GR. LETTERS ΥΗΥ REPORTED BY CVA AS ON
ATHENA'S SHIELD ARE RIFTS IN THE GLAZE; THE LETTERS ΡΙΡ (THE LAST LETTER
REVERSED) REPORTED BY KLEIN (1887), 86 [[KLEIN DOES NOT MENTION THESE]],
TOGETHER WITH ΥΗΥ, ARE PART OF THE STAR THAT IS THE SHIELD DEVICE. THE ARCHON
INSCRIPTION IS OMITTED. ROBERTSON CALLS IT A SPECIMEN(?) AMPHORA, SINCE IT HAS
NO ARCHON NAME. PETERS ATTRIBUTED THE AMPHORA TO THE JENA PAINTER, KAROUZOU TO
THE SAME HAND AS ATHENS 1435, WHICH BEAZLEY ATTRIBUTED TO THE OINOMAOS PAINTER.
FOR THE WORKSHOP (UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF THE JENA PAINTER) SEE ROBERTSON. A
`COMPETITION SAMPLE', SEE ISTAMBUL L. 3149. VALAVANIS, N. 45: THE SIGNATURES ARE
OF THE MAKERS OF THE POTS AND NOT THE OWNERS OF THE POTTERIES AS TIVERIOS
BELIEVES.
CAVI Number: 4367
AVI Bibliography: KLEIN (1887), 86F. — A.H. SMITH, CVA LONDON 1, GREAT BRITAIN 1 (1925), III H
F, PL. 2,1 AND 4 (BIBL.). — BEAZLEY (1943A), 455/1 (BIBL.). — DEV.[1] (1951),
97, PLS. 46,4 AND 47,1. — ABV (1956), 413, MIDDLE. — DEV.[2] (1986), PLS.
100,3-4 (A, B). — ESCHBACH (1986), 31/CAT. 17, FIGS. 15-16, PL. 9,1-2 (A, PARTS;
DRS.; BIBL.). — ADD.[2] (1989), 107. — ATTSCR (1990), NO. 1224. — ROBERTSON
(1992), 277, FIGS. 278-79. — VALAVANIS (1997), 88 AND N. 38, FIGS. 2-3 (A, B).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
