6353, ATHENIAN, Boston (MA), Museum of Fine Arts, 63.119

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Vase Number: 6353
Fabric: ATHENIAN
Technique: BLACK-FIGURE
Shape Name: BALL
Date: -525 to -475
Inscriptions: Graffito:
Decoration: Body: ATHLETES, ACONTISTS, DISKOBOLOI, AND EROTIC, DRAPED MAN AND YOUTH WITH DOG, DEER UNDERNEATH, STAMPED FLORAL, PALMETTE
Current Collection: Boston (MA), Museum of Fine Arts: 63.119
Publication Record: Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies: 8 (1967), PLS.1.1-4, 2.5-6
Lear, A., and Cantarella, E., Images of ancient Greek pederasty, Boys were their gods (London and New York, 2008): 79, FIG.2.9 (PART)
Panciera, S. (ed.), Tituli 2, Miscellanea (Rome, 1980): 11 (DRAWINGS), PL.2. 1-3
AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=2957
AVI Record Number: 2809
CAVI Collection: Boston 63.119.
CAVI Lemma: BF terracotta ball. Unattributed. Ca. 500.
CAVI Subject: Around the middle: in the center, a boy greeted by a bearded man. On either side, athletes.
CAVI Inscriptions: In the scene, in BG: Μυρρινες ειμι, | ναιχι. On the top cap, Gr.: hο παις καλος :*. Below, in a different hand, Gr: :* hος εοικεν απο τον εριον εναι{αι}, the last two letters in the line above. On the bottom cap, Gr.: Μυρρινες ειμι.
CAVI Number: 2809
AVI Bibliography: NNN (1963), BMusB 61: no. 323, 20-22, figs. 1-2. — Immerwahr (1967). — Guarducci (1970), 64ff., pl. 2. — Gallavotti (1971), 347-56. — Cataudella (1978), 163-75. — Guarducci (1980), 10-16. — Threatte (1980), 176 (on ειμι and εναι). — AttScr (1990), no. 950.

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