An Attic black-figured lekythos, attributed to the Edinburgh Painter, circa 520-510 B.C.

painted with athletes wielding javelins and an umpire holding a stick and wearing an ornate chlamys, linked palmettes on the neck.

Münzen & Medaillen AG, Basel, May 6, 1967, no. 139, pl. 40
Sotheby's London, July 11, 1977, no. 327, illus.
Michael Schmatz (Sotheby's London, July 10, 1979, no. 286, illus.)
Sotheby's London, July 11-12, 1983, no. 322, illus.
Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, inv. no. SLM 05

B. Fellmann and H. Scheyhing (eds.), Hundert Jahre deutsche Ausgrabung in Olympia, catalogue of the exhibition, Munich, 1972, no. 94, p. 115
Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, Art of the Ancient World, no. 62, 1985, p. 25, no. 64, illus.
Beazley Archive Pottery Database no. 5899

The body of the vase showing old repaired breaks with restorations at joins with small areas of inpainting, each figure with at least one break line with some minor impainting and break lines, three very minor chips to rim, possible inpainting to rim, the top of handle with losses to black glazed surface, loss to patina to red clay around the far left figure with subsequent loss to black glazed band to shoulder approx 1-inch long, loss to glazed banding of shoulder beneath the handle approx 3-inch long, foot with some losses to black glaze, base of body of vase with inpainted restoration and losses to original black glaze, neck possibly replaced.
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