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A Hoplitodromos Cup

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2013

J. D. Beazley
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The Attic red-figured cup reproduced in Plates 5, 7a and Fig. I was formerly in the Wyndham Cook collection at Richmond and was acquired by the Ashmolean Museum in 1947. My thanks are due to the Keeper of the Antiquarium, Mr. D. B. Harden, for permission to publish it. The photographs are by Mr. H. N. Newton. The inside picture has been figured already, in the Burlington Catalogue for 1903, pl. 92, G 17, and in the Ashmolean Report for 1947, pl. 3, a. The outside is unpublished, but was briefly described by Norman Gardiner in JHS XXIII 288–9. The date is about 480 B.C., the artist the Triptolemos Painter (VA 99 no. 18; AttV 154 no. 19; ARV 242 no. 35). Diameter 0.237, height 0.095. Some of the cups decorated by the Triptolemos Painter, as Bloesch has shown, were fashioned by Euphronios (FAS 73-8), and the shape of the Oxford cup is at least not far from the work of that potter.

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Research Article
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Annual of the British School at Athens , Volume 46 , November 1951 , pp. 7 - 15
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Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1951

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References

In addition to the usual BSA abbreviations the following are used in this article:

Bloesch FAS—Formen attischer Schalen.

Coll. B et C. = Collection du Dr. B et de M. C.

Hartwig = Die griechischen Meisterschalen.

Norman Gardiner, Athl. = Athletics of the Ancient World.

Norman Gardiner, GAS = Greek Athletic Sports.

RG = Beazley and Magi, La Raccolta Guglielmi.

1 See for example the komos cup by the Brygos Painter in Würzburg (FR pl. 50; MuZ figs. 421–3).

2 The London cup E 818 (JHS XXIII, 285 fig. 12 = Norman Gardiner GAS 289), by the Dokimasia Painter (ARV 271 no. 9), probably represents not the end of a race, in which the runner-up ‘has thrown down his shield in disgust’ (JHS XXIII, 287), but two separate figures of hoplitodromoi, not spatially connected with each other: one arriving at the track, the other practising without his shield, which he has laid down.

3 He may mean ‘of a starter in a position approxi mating to modern custom’.

4 The highlight to right of the left-hand figure has unfortunately been painted out in the negative, and nose and mouth touched up.