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Title:Terracotta Panathenaic prize amphora (jar)
Artist:Attributed to the Leagros Group
Period:Archaic
Date:ca. 510 BCE
Culture:Greek, Attic
Medium:Terracotta; black-figure
Dimensions:H. 25 in. (63.5 cm)
Classification:Vases
Credit Line:Rogers Fund, 1907
Object Number:07.286.80
Said to be from Cumae or Agrigento
Richter, Gisela M. A., Marjorie J. Milne, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1922. Shapes of Greek Vases. New York.
Alexander, Christine. 1933[1925]. Greek Athletics. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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McClees, Helen and Christine Alexander. 1941. The Daily Life of the Greeks and Romans: As Illustrated in the Classical Collections, 6th ed. pp. 99, 102, fig. 125, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1953. Handbook of the Greek Collection. p. 203, pl. 43c, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
Beazley, John D. 1956. Attic Black-figure Vase-painters. p. 369, no. 114, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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Beck, Frederick A. G. 1975. Album of Greek Education: The Greeks at School and at Play. p. 36, fig. 216, Sydney: Cheiron Press.
Beazley, John D. 1986. The Development of Attic Black Figure, Vol. 24, 2nd ed.. p. 107 [p. 86 n. 32], pl. 95, 3, Berkeley: University of California Press.
Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC). 1997. Vol. 8: Thespiades-Zodiacus. "Seirenes," p. 1096, no. 21, pl. 735, Zürich: Artemis Verlag.
Bentz, Martin. 1998. Panathenaische Preisamphoren: eine athenische Vasengattung und ihre Funktion vom 6.-4. Jahrhundert v. Chr., Vereinigung der Freunde antiker Kunst, Vol. 18. cat. 6.105, p. 132, pl. 33, Basel: Vereinigung der Freunde antiker Kunst.
Hannah, Patricia A. 2000. "An Athena on Both Sides Down Under." Periplous: Papers on Classical Art and Archaeology Presented to Sir John Boardman, Mr. Gocha R. Tsetskhladze, A. J. N. W. Prag, and Anthony M. Snodgrass, eds. p. 118, London: Thames and Hudson.
Herrmann, John and Christine Kondoleon. 2004. Games for the Gods: The Greek Athlete and the Olympic Spirit. no. 73, pp. 150–51, 179, Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Hemingway, Seán, Nicole Stribling, Dr. John H. Oakley, Carol Mattusch, and Seth D. Pevnick. 2017. The Horse in Ancient Greek Art, Mr. Peter J. Schertz, ed. pp. 73–74, fig. 53, Virginia: National Sporting Library & Museum.
Eschbach, Norbert. 2017. Panathenäische Preisamphoren aus dem Kerameikos zu Athen, Kerameikos 21: p. 348, Beilage I: 3, 3.
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