Terracotta Panathenaic prize amphora (jar)
Reverse, chariot race
From the second quarter of the sixth century B.C. on, victors in the contests for the Panathenaic festival in Athens were awarded a standardized vase containing one metretes (about forty-two quarts) of olive oil from sacred olive groves in Attica. The official decoration on the front was a picture of a statue of Athena, fully armed, standing between two columns. The event for which the vase was awarded was illustrated on the back. This vase was the prize of a victor in the prestigious chariot race.
Artwork Details
- Title: Terracotta Panathenaic prize amphora (jar)
- Artist: Compared with work by the Painter of Boulogne 441
- Period: Archaic
- Date: ca. 520 BCE
- Culture: Greek, Attic
- Medium: Terracotta; black-figure
- Dimensions: H. 24 1/2 in. (62.2 cm)
- Classification: Vases
- Credit Line: Fletcher Fund, 1956
- Object Number: 56.171.4
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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