Last Recorded Collection: Athens, Agora Museum: P3782
Publication Record: NOTES FROM BEAZLEY ARCHIVE PHOTOGRAPHIC MOUNT(S): in late 4th c. context The Athenian Agora, Results of Excavations conducted by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens: 23, PL.31.274
CAVI Lemma: Fr. of BF Panathenaic prize amphora. From Athens, Agora F 11:2. Unattributed.
Bakchios or Kittos, potter (?). Second quarter fourth.
CAVI Subject: A: part of the left column shaft.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: to left of column: [---]ς [---]{1}. To right of the same column: [των
Αθ]η̣νη̣[θεν αθλων]{2}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} there is a bit of a vacant area below the sigma: if there was epoiesen it
must have been at some little distance. There was not room for it before the
name, to judge by the other inscription. {2} only one stroke remains of each
eta, but they are definitely not epsilons.
CAVI Comments: The column is no doubt the left-hand column because of the prize inscription.
M.&P. suggest the names of Bakchios or Kittos, since they are the only potters
of Panathenaics so far known from signatures. The nearest parallel for
inscriptions on both sides of a single column is Istambul L. 3149, from Lindos,
ABV 413/2, where the signature of Bakchios is on the left and the archon
inscription is on the right. See Ag. 23 further. The combination of signature
and prize inscription by one column seems to be highly unusual.
CAVI Number: 0304
AVI Bibliography: Moore–Pease (1986), 136/274, pl. 31.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
