Decoration: A,B: DRAPED MEN WITH STAFFS SEATED AT TABLE PLAYING GAME, KRATER, TREE
Last Recorded Collection: New York (N.Y.), market, Royal Athena
Previous Collections:
Toronto, Borowski
New York (N.Y.), market, Christie's
Publication Record: Christie, Manson and Woods, sale catalogue: NEW YORK, 12.6.2000, 48-49, NO.48 (COLOUR OF A AND B) Eisenberg, J., Art of the Ancient World, Royal Athena, sale catalogue: 27 (2016) 49, NO.90 AND BACKCOVER (COLOUR OF A AND B) Laser, S., Sport und Spiel, Archeologia Homerica (Göttingen, 1987): 137, FIG.51B-C (DRAWINGS) Leipen, N. (et al.), Glimpses of Excellence (Toronto, 1984): 11, NO.7 (A, B)
CAVI Subject: A: two bearded men with their sticks, seated and playing a board game; under
the table, a krater. B: similar (a replica except for the inscriptions).
CAVI Inscriptions: Nonsense: imitation letters: numerous inscriptions: A: behind each player and
above them: three inscriptions; diagonally down from each player: two
inscriptions. B: one inscription above the players; vertically down between the
players another inscription; to right of (behind) the right player: a third
inscription. Under the foot, Gr.: see the facs. in `Glimpses'.
CAVI Comments: Probably now Jerusalem, Borowski. The Plousios Painter's name piece is
Vatican 413. Many letters are recognizable, some are disjointed, and many are
imitation letters. Hasty writing.
CAVI Number: 7733
AVI Bibliography: Bothmer (1977a), 216. — Guy (1984), 11/7.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
