The Euphiletos Painter was trained in the black-figure technique. It is interesting to compare the firm, deliberate incision in his works with the looser, freer line of artists like the Berlin Painter. The footrace is one of the earliest known events in the Panathenaic games.
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Title:Terracotta Panathenaic prize amphora
Artist:Attributed to the Euphiletos Painter
Period:Archaic
Date:ca. 530 BCE
Culture:Greek, Attic
Medium:Terracotta; black-figure
Dimensions:H. 24 1/2 in. (62.2 cm)
Classification:Vases
Credit Line:Rogers Fund, 1914
Object Number:14.130.12
From Vulci, Italy (Bonaparte 1829, p. 112, no. 1193)
March 1829, excavated in Vulci; collection of Lucien Bonaparte, 1st Prince of Canino; until 1914, collection of Edward J. Jekyll; [1914, purchased by Edward Perry Warren through Christie, Manson, and Woods, London (E.J. Jekyll sale, lot 23)]; acquired in 1914, purchased from E.P. Warren.
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