A Son of Nikon or Nikon Victorious: A New Inscription on a Fragment of a Pseudo Panathenaic Amphora
Recently, an inscribed fragment of a closed vase made of buff pinkish clay, covered with a red-orange wash, 11.8 cm wide and 8.4 cm high, and decorated with black, lustrous clay-paint surfaced briefly on the Swiss art market. It preserves a small section of the black tongue pattern on the shoulder a...
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| description | Recently, an inscribed fragment of a closed vase made of buff pinkish clay, covered with a red-orange wash, 11.8 cm wide and 8.4 cm high, and decorated with black, lustrous clay-paint surfaced briefly on the Swiss art market. It preserves a small section of the black tongue pattern on the shoulder and a wide black strip separating ornament and a panel with a straight glossy black line angled upwards; and the incomplete inscription TONIKONO[… . This paper endeavours to place the inscription and the name Nikon in a wider context and to examine the use of Pseudo-Panathenaic Amphorae. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3cb5c22031f049579e775546b6f31f082023-12-03T13:18:50ZengMDPI AGArts2076-07522022-07-011146910.3390/arts11040069A Son of Nikon or Nikon Victorious: A New Inscription on a Fragment of a Pseudo Panathenaic AmphoraThomas Mannack0Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3LU, UKRecently, an inscribed fragment of a closed vase made of buff pinkish clay, covered with a red-orange wash, 11.8 cm wide and 8.4 cm high, and decorated with black, lustrous clay-paint surfaced briefly on the Swiss art market. It preserves a small section of the black tongue pattern on the shoulder and a wide black strip separating ornament and a panel with a straight glossy black line angled upwards; and the incomplete inscription TONIKONO[… . This paper endeavours to place the inscription and the name Nikon in a wider context and to examine the use of Pseudo-Panathenaic Amphorae.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0752/11/4/69Panathenaic AmphoraePseudo-Panathenaic Amphoraekalos-namesNikonchariot race |
| spellingShingle | Thomas Mannack A Son of Nikon or Nikon Victorious: A New Inscription on a Fragment of a Pseudo Panathenaic Amphora Arts Panathenaic Amphorae Pseudo-Panathenaic Amphorae kalos-names Nikon chariot race |
| title | A Son of Nikon or Nikon Victorious: A New Inscription on a Fragment of a Pseudo Panathenaic Amphora |
| title_full | A Son of Nikon or Nikon Victorious: A New Inscription on a Fragment of a Pseudo Panathenaic Amphora |
| title_fullStr | A Son of Nikon or Nikon Victorious: A New Inscription on a Fragment of a Pseudo Panathenaic Amphora |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Son of Nikon or Nikon Victorious: A New Inscription on a Fragment of a Pseudo Panathenaic Amphora |
| title_short | A Son of Nikon or Nikon Victorious: A New Inscription on a Fragment of a Pseudo Panathenaic Amphora |
| title_sort | son of nikon or nikon victorious a new inscription on a fragment of a pseudo panathenaic amphora |
| topic | Panathenaic Amphorae Pseudo-Panathenaic Amphorae kalos-names Nikon chariot race |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0752/11/4/69 |
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