310310, ATHENIAN, New York (N.Y.), Metropolitan Museum, San Simeon (CA), Hearst Corporation, 56.171.13

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Vase Number: 310310
Fabric: ATHENIAN
Technique: BLACK-FIGURE
Shape Name: AMPHORA, BELLY, TYPE B
Provenance: ITALY, ORVIETO
Date: -575 to -525
Inscriptions: Inscription: DYOBELOKAIMETHIGES
Attributed To: GROUP E by AMYX
Decoration: A: WARRIOR, INSCRIPTION
B: ATHLETE CARRYING TRIPOD (VICTOR)
Current Collection: New York (N.Y.), Metropolitan Museum: 56.171.13
Previous Collections:
- San Simeon (CA), Hearst Corporation: 9938
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 136.50
Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 55
Bothmer, D. von, The Amasis Painter and his World (Malibu, 1985): 31, FIG.18 (B)
Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 37
Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: NEW YORK, METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART 3, 8-9, PL.(544) 12.1-2 View Whole CVA Plates
Immerwahr, H., Attic Script, A Survey (Oxford, 1990): PL.8.34 (A)
Kephalidou, E., Nikitis, Eikonographiki meleti tou archaiou ellinikou athlitismou (Thessaloniki, 1996): PL.13.T6 (A, B)
AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=5933
AVI Record Number: 5710
CAVI Collection: New York 56.171.13.
CAVI Lemma: BF amphora. From Orvieto. Group E. Third quarter sixth. Ca. 540 (Bothmer).
CAVI Subject: A: a warrior. B: a victorious athlete carrying a tripod.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: to right of the warrior, vertically in a straight line and not facing him: δυ' ὀβελὸ καὶ μἔθιγες, retr.{1}. [Under the foot, Gr.(?)]: ΗΜ, with presumably Ionic eta{2}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} so Amyx, interpreting it as the price of the vase. Differently Beazley (see ABV and cf. Kretschmer 91): δυ' ὀβελὸ καὶ με̅̀ θίγε̅⟨ι⟩ς, "two obols - and hands off." So also Bothmer apud Blatter. {2} probably not for ημιδραχμη, as we are at the beginning of the monetary system (Johnston).
CAVI Comments: Ex San Simeon, Hearst 9938. Johnston discusses the painted inscription and denies that the two obols are the price of the vase: the inscription may not refer to the vase and the obol may not yet have been in existence. Attic alphabet.
CAVI Number: 5710
AVI Bibliography: Kretschmer (1894), 91 and 117. — Amyx (1941), 179- 206, pls. 25-27. — Jonkees (1951a), 66-74, pl. 16 (after CalPCA). — ABV (1956), 136/50. — Bothmer (1957a), 170,1-2. — Amyx (1958), 300 ff. — D. von Bothmer, CVA New York 3, USA 12 (1963), p. 8, pl. 12. — Para. (1971), 55. — Bothmer apud Blatter (1975), 350-51. — Johnston (1979), 34 and n. 17. — Bothmer (1985), 31, fig. 18 (A). — Add.[2] (1989), 37. — AttScr (1990), no. 131, fig. 34.
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/639959859
Coordinates: 42.718642,12.114315
Pleiades Coordinates: 42.7225286,12.1198882

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