300828, ATHENIAN, London, British Museum, London, British Museum, London, British Museum, 1842,0728.834

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Vase Number: 300828
Fabric: ATHENIAN
Technique: BLACK-FIGURE
Shape Name: AMPHORA, PANATHENAIC PRIZE
Provenance: GREECE, ATHENS
Date: -575 to -525
Inscriptions: Inscription: TONATHENETHENATHLON
Attributed To: BURGON GROUP by BEAZLEY
Decoration: A: ATHENA, DEVICE, DOLPHIN
B: BIGA
Neck A: SIREN
Neck B: OWL
Current Collection: London, British Museum: 1842.7-28.834
Previous Collections:
- London, British Museum: 1842,0728.834 (View on British Museum site)
- London, British Museum: B130
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 89.1
Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 33
Bentz, M. and Eschbach, N. (eds.), Panathenaika: Symposion zu den Panathenäischen Preisamphoren, Rauischholzhausen 25.-29.11.1998 (Mainz, 2001): PL.40.4 (A)
Bentz, M., Panathenäische Preisamphoren, Eine athenische Vasengattung und ihre Funktion vom 6.-4. Jahrhundert v. Chr. 18. Beih. zur Antiken Kunst (Basel, 1998): PLS.1-2 (A, B)
Boardman, J., The history of Greek vases: potters, painters and pictures (London, 2001): 59, FIG.73 (A)
Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 24
Cook, B.F., The Elgin Marbles (London, 1997): 7, FIG.2 (A)
Cook, R.M., Greek Painted Pottery (London, 1966): PL.21B (A)
Cook, R.M., Greek Painted Pottery 3rd ed. (London, 1997): PL.21B (A)
Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: LONDON, BRITISH MUSEUM 1, IIIHe.3, PL.(25) 1.1A-B View Whole CVA Plates
Crouwel, J.H., Chariots and other Wheeled Vehicles in Iron Age Greece, Allard Pierson Series 9 (Amsterdam, 1992): PL.23.1A-B (DRAWING OF B)
Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens: 81 (2012) 211, FIG.3 (A)
Hirayama, T., Kleitias and Attic Black-Figure Vases in the Sixth-Century B.C. (Tokyo, 2010): FIG.18I (A)
Holliday, P.J. (ed.), Narrative and Event in Ancient Art (Cambridge, 1993): 93, FIG.35 (A)
Hurwit, J.M., The Athenian Acropolis, History, Mythology, and Archaeology from the Neolithic Era to the Present (Cambridge, 1998): 24, FIG.23 (A)
Immerwahr, H., Attic Script, A Survey (Oxford, 1990): PL.37.147 (PART OF A)
Jenkins, I., The Parthenon Frieze (London, 1994): 24, FIG.13 (A)
Kaltsas N. (ed.), Agon, Exhibition catalogue (Athens, 2004): 178, NO.68 (COLOUR OF B)
Mannack, T., Griechische Vasenmalerei, Eine Einfuhrung, 2nd edition (Darmstadt, 2012): 114, FIG.65A (A)
Metropolitan Museum Journal: 34 (1999) 44, FIGS.9-10 (A, B)
Meyer, M. and Bruggemann, N., Kore und Kouros. Weihgaben für die Götter (Vienna, 2007): PL.11.3 (A)
Meyer, M., Athena, Göttin von Athen. Kult und Mythos auf der Akropolis bis in klassische Zeit, Wiener Forschungen zur Archäologie 16 (Vienna, 2017): 618, FIGS.250-251 (COLOUR OF A AND B)
Morais, R., Leao, D., and Rodriguez Perez, D. (eds.), Greek Art in Motion, Studies in Honour of Sir John Boardman on the Occasion of his 90th Birthday (Oxford, 2019): 83, FIG.6A (COLOUR OF A)
Neils, J. et al., Goddess and Polis, The Panathenaic Festival in Ancient Athens (Princeton, 1992): 30, FIG.19 (A)
Osborne, R., Greece in the Making, 1200-479 BC (London, 1996): 245, FIG.62 (A)
Price, S., Religions of the Ancient Greeks (Cambridge, 1999): 42, FIG.2.15 (B)
Shapiro, H.A., Art and Cult under the Tyrants in Athens (Mainz, 1989): PL.6A (A)
Sparkes, B.A., The Red and the Black (London, 1996): 57, FIG.II.16 (A)
Valavanis, P., Games and sanctuaries in ancient Greece: Olympia, Delphi, Isthmia, Nemea, Athens (Los Angeles, 2004): 372, FIG.535 (COLOUR OF A)
Woodford, S., An Introduction to Greek Art. Sculpture and Vase Painting in the Archaic and Classical Periods. 2nd edition (London, 2015): 64, FIG.84 (A)
AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=4405
AVI Record Number: 4233
LIMC ID: 41509
LIMC Web: http://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/080e-75f00868b06e0-b
British Museum Link: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1842-0728-834
CAVI Collection: London B 130.
CAVI Lemma: Panathenaic prize amphora. From Athens. Burgon Group (near Painter of London B 76). Second quarter sixth. 570-560.
CAVI Subject: A: Athena to left; no columns. B: synoris.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: Vertically to left of Athena and facing her, in red: τον Αθενεθ[ε]ν αθλον : εμι, retr.{1}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} εμι: the regular Attic form is ειμι, with a true diphthong; see Threatte (1980), 176.
CAVI Comments: Ex Burgon. Dotted theta. Kyle gives references to question of horses vs. mules in the synoris of the Burgon amphora; K. believes they are horses.
CAVI Number: 4233
AVI Bibliography: CIG 1 (1828), 33, p. 49. — A.H. Smith, CVA London 1, Great Britain 1 (1925), III H e, pl. 1,1a-b. — Beazley (1943a), 441. — Dev.[1] (1951), 88-89, 116, 119. — ABV (1956), 89/1 (much bibl.). — Beazley (1960b), pls. 1-2 (the Burgon tomb group). — Para. (1971), 33. — Brandt (1978), 3/1. — D. Williams (1985), fig. 34, is a picture of the vases in the Burgon tomb in Athens. — Dev.[2] (1986), pls. 89-90. — Add.[2] (1989), 24 (much bibl.). — Shapiro (1989), 28 n. 76, pl. 6,a (A). — AttScr (1990), no. 1195, fig. 147 (A). — Kyle (1992), 93, fig. 59 (B), and 206 n. 89. — Neils (1992), 29, fig. 19 (A) (bibl.).
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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