330737, ATHENIAN, Cleveland (OH), Museum of Art, Buffalo (N.Y.), Albright Art Gallery, New York (N.Y.), market, Sotheby's, Buffalo (N.Y.), Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo (N.Y.), Albright Art Gallery, Rome, market, 2022.42

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Vase Number: 330737
Fabric: ATHENIAN
Technique: BLACK-FIGURE
Sub Technique: WHITE GROUND
Shape Name: LEKYTHOS
Provenance: ITALY, SICILY, GELA
Date: -525 to -475
Attributed To: ATHENA P by BEAZLEY
Decoration: Body: ATHENA BETWEEN COCKS, BETWEEN DRAPED MEN WITH STAFFS, ONE WITH BRANCHES, NONSENSE INSCRIPTIONS, DEVICE, SNAKE
Current Collection: Cleveland (OH), Museum of Art: 2022.42
Previous Collections:
- Rome, market
- Buffalo (N.Y.), Albright Art Gallery: 1933.135
- Buffalo (N.Y.), Albright Art Gallery: G479
- Buffalo (N.Y.), Albright Art Gallery: 33.135
- New York (N.Y.), market, Sotheby's
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 522
Haspels, C.H.E., Attic Black-figured Lekythoi (Paris, 1936): 256.34
Minerva, International Review of Ancient Art and Archaeology: 18.5 (SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2007) 38, FIG.6 (COLOUR OF PART OF BD)
Neils, J. et al., Goddess and Polis, The Panathenaic Festival in Ancient Athens (Princeton, 1992): 18, 182, NO.55
Shapiro, H.A., Art and Cult under the Tyrants in Athens (Mainz, 1989): PL.15A (PART)
Sotheby-Parke-Bernet, New York, sale catalogue: 7.6.2007, 50-51, NO.34 (COLOUR OF BD)
Steinhart, M., Die Kunst der Nachahmung (Mainz, 2004): PL.27.2-3 (BD)
AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=3155
AVI Record Number: 3001
CAVI Collection: Buffalo, Albright Art Gallery G 479.
CAVI Lemma: BF/WG lekythos. From Gela. Athena Painter. Early fifth.
CAVI Subject: Athena (flanked by cocks) and two trainers or officers of the Panathenaic Games.
CAVI Inscriptions: Nonsense: between the heads of Athena and the left trainer: (σ)ογο. To his right: ιεποσ. To right of Athena's head: λο(.). Below, to left of the right trainer: ελοιποσ{1}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} Bieber assumes that the second and fourth inscriptions are near-sense: ιεπον (sic) for ιερον and ο.εροιποσ for ιεροποιος. The photo in AJA does not show the initial omicron; the second letter does not look like a rho, but it could be incomplete. Bieber also reads the first and third inscriptions together: νογο-υον.
CAVI Comments: Ex Hirsch collection. Shapiro mentions the `ιεροποιοι' reading of Bieber's and refers to DAA. [Readings from the photo in Shapiro differ: between the heads: looks more like: hοσο. To Athena's left: ιενοσ. Rather than ιεποσ. To Athena's right: λο(.)^εγοιλο(.). These readings are not certain either as the letters are in part distorted.] Clearly just nonsense.
CAVI Number: 3001
AVI Bibliography: Haspels (1936), 256/34. — Bieber (1944), 121 ff., fig. 2a-b. — ABV (1956), 522/34. — Shapiro (1989), 35-36, pl. 15,a. — Neils (1992a), 183/55 (bibl.) and 17; ill. p. 18 (all) and p. 182 (part).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)

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