In addition to stylistic criteria, the device of a flying horse on Athena's shield suggests an attribution to the Kleophrades Painter. The motif seems particularly appropriate here because the artist conveys the speed of the chariot by the position of the horses who appear to be flying over the ground.
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Title:Terracotta Panathenaic prize amphora
Artist:Attributed to the Kleophrades Painter
Period:Archaic
Date:ca. 525–500 BCE
Culture:Greek, Attic
Medium:Terracotta; black-figure
Dimensions:H. 25 in. (63.5 cm)
Classification:Vases
Credit Line:Rogers Fund, 1907
Object Number:07.286.79
Inscription: Inscribed "one the prizes from Athens"
Said to be from Cumae or Agrigento (Von Bothmer 1963, CVA, fasc. 3, p. 35)
Said to have been found in Cumae or Agrigento; [afterwards, with Tom and Ignazio Virzi, Palermo]; purchased from T. and I. Virzi by Edward Perry Warren; [until 1907, with E.P. Warren]; acquired in 1907, purchased from E.P. Warren.
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Smets, A. 1936. "“Amphores Panathénaïques inscrites.”." L’Antiquité Classique, 1: no. 45, p. 92.
Beazley, John D. 1942. Attic Red-figure Vase-painters. p. 129, no. 98, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Richter, Gisela M. A. and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1946. Attic Red-figured Vases, a Survey. p. 67, New Haven: Yale University Press.
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Richter, Gisela M. A. 1953. Handbook of the Greek Collection. pp. 71, 213, pl. 53a, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
Schnitzler, Ludwig. 1955. "Vom Kleophrades-Maler." Opuscula Atheniens, 2: p. 57, fig. 12, pl. 4, note 110.
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von Bothmer, Dietrich. 1963. Attic Black-Figured Amphorae, Corpus vasorum antiquorum. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fasc. 3., USA. p. 35, pl. 43, Cambridge, Ma.: Harvard University Press.
Beazley, John D. 1971. Paralipomena: Additions to Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters and to Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters [2nd edition]. p. 175, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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Greifenhagen, Adolf. 1976. Alte Zeichnung nach unbekannten griechischen Vasen. p. 18, note 41, Munich: Vertag der Bayer.
Bentz, Martin. 1998. Panathenaische Preisamphoren: eine athenische Vasengattung und ihre Funktion vom 6.-4. Jahrhundert v. Chr., Vereinigung der Freunde antiker Kunst, Vol. 18. fig. 5.337, Basel: Vereinigung der Freunde antiker Kunst.
van Alfen, Peter. 2004. A Simple Souvenir: Coins and Medals of the Olympic Games. p. 3–4, 36, fig. 1, New York: American Numismatic Society.
Cohen, Beth. 2006. "Bilingual Vases and Vase Painters." The Colors of Clay: Special Techniques in Athenian Vases, Beth Cohen, ed. pp. 23, 25, fig. 5, n. 35, Malibu: J. Paul Getty Trust.
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