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Description: | Athenian black figure panathenaic, non prize amphora. It has a circular base leading into a regular body with a wide neck and the remains of a black painted rim. It has two black painted looped handles attached from the top to the body on opposite sides. The bottom third is painted black. Black-figure panel decoration on the body: on one side there is the goddess Athena with aegis (cuirass), helmet, shield, represented striding forward aggressively, brandishing her spear, flanked on either side by small owl perched on a tall column. On the other side there are two athletes wrestling, flanked by two other athletes with a thong or a taenia in their hands. On each side of the neck of the amphora there is a palmette chain in plain black gloss with red on the cordon below.
Same type of amphora, filled with olive oil, was given as prize at the Panathenaic festival, celebrated in honour of the goddess Athena once every four years in Athens. | Subjects: | Greece Athens (?). Europe Southern Europe | Source: | Bristol Museums, Galleries & Archives | Identifier: | emu.ecatalogue.foreignarchaeology.80391 | Go to resource |
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