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205104, ATHENIAN, London, British Museum, London, British Museum, London, British Museum, 1843,1103.53

  • Vase Number: 205104
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: RED-FIGURE
  • Shape Name: CUP B
  • Provenance: ITALY, ETRURIA, VULCI
  • Date: -500 TO -450
  • Inscriptions: Inscription: HO PAIS KALOS
    Inscription: NAICHI
  • Attributed To: DOURIS by HARTWIG
  • Decoration: A: COURTING, ATHLETE, YOUTHS, ONE DRAPED WITH FILLET, ONE WITH FILLETS AND SPRIGS, MEN AND YOUTH, ALL DRAPED, WITH FLOWERS
    B: DRAPED YOUTHS, SOME WITH STAFFS, SPONGE, ARYBALLOS AND BAG SUSPENDED
    I: DRAPED MAN WITH STAFF, SPONGE, ARYBALLOS AND BAG SUSPENDED
  • Last Recorded Collection: London, British Museum: E52
  • Previous Collections:
  • Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 432.59
    Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 202.37
    Buitron-Oliver, D., Douris, A Master-Painter of Athenian Red-Figure Vases (Mainz, 1995): PL.65, NO.105
    Burn, L. and Glynn, R., Beazley Addenda (Oxford, 1982): 117
    Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 237
    Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: LONDON, BRITISH MUSEUM 9, 36-37, FIGS.02C, 03L, 07C, PLS.(806-807) 30.A-B, 31.A-B
    Kephalidou, E., Nikitis, Eikonographiki meleti tou archaiou ellinikou athlitismou (Thessaloniki, 1996): PL.32.G51 (A)
    Martins, J.P., A Arte e os Jogos Gregos na Antiguidade, As Representacoes das Actividades Fisico-Atleticas na Ceramica Classica Grega nos Periodos das Figureas Negras e Vermelhas (Coimbra, 2009): 41, FIG.1 (PART OF A)
    Murray, A.S., Designs from Greek vases in the British Museum (London, 1894): FIG.32 (I)
    Sengoku-Haga, K., Jenkins, I., et al., The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greece from the British Museum (Osaka, 2011): 113, NO.67 (COLOUR OF A)
    Stuttard, D., Power Games, Ritual and Rivalry at the Ancient Greek Olympics (London, 2012): 165, FIG.60 (COLOUR OF PART OF A)
  • AVI Web: HTTPS://WWW.AVI.UNIBAS.CH/DB/SEARCHFORM.HTML?ID=4637
  • AVI Record Number: 4465
  • British Museum Link: HTTPS://WWW.BRITISHMUSEUM.ORG/COLLECTION/OBJECT/G_1843-1103-53
  • CAVI Collection: LONDON E 52.
  • CAVI Lemma: RF CUP. FROM VULCI, CUCUMELLA AREA C (FAM. FEPIA). DOURIS. PYTHON, POTTER. FIRST QUARTER FIFTH. PERIOD 3 (BEAZLEY). MIDDLE PERIOD (BUITRON-OLIVER).
  • CAVI Subject: INT.: BEARDED MAN WITH HIS STICK; SPONGE, ARYBALLOS, BAG. A: YOUTH HANDING A FILLET TO A BOY VICTOR WITH BRANCHES; MAN OFFERS A FLOWER TO A BOY; A BEARDED MAN WITH FLOWER. B: FIVE YOUTHS AND BOYS; SPONGE, ARYBALLOS, ETC.
  • CAVI Inscriptions: INT.: BESIDE THE STICK: Hο παις καλος, RETR. A: Hο παις καλος. B: Hο παις καλος, ναιχι. UNDER THE FOOT, GR.: αγυ, RETR. (WITH ETRUSCAN ALPHA) AND LIGATURE OF MU AND ZETA, THE LATTER WITH SHORT CROSS BARS{1}.
  • CAVI Footnotes: {1} NOT IN HACKL (1909) OR JOHNSTON (1979). B.-O. ONLY HAS THE LIGATURE.
  • CAVI Comments: FROM THE SAME PLACE AS LONDON E 53. SCENES FROM THE PALAESTRA, PARTLY EROTIC. WILLIAMS: THE FIRST GR. SEEMS ETRUSCAN AND MAY BE PART OF A PROPER NAME.
  • CAVI Number: 4465
  • AVI Bibliography: HARTWIG (1893), 620/3 AND 686/45. — C.H. SMITH IN BM CAT. E (1896), 76-77. — ARV[2] (1963), 432/59. — WEGNER (1968), 176-79. — ADD.[2] (1989), 237. — D. WILLIAMS, CVA LONDON 9, GREAT BRITAIN 17 (1993), 36/21, PLS. 30-31, FIGS. 3,L (FACS. OF GR.) AND 7,C (PROFILE). — BUITRON-OLIVER (1995), 79/105 (INCL. FACS. OF GR.), PL. 65.
  • CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
  • Pleiades URI: HTTPS://PLEIADES.STOA.ORG/PLACES/413393
  • Coordinates: 42.421429,11.702499
  • Pleiades Coordinates: 42.419009,11.6298975
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