Held every four years the festival included athletic musical and other competitions.
Attic panathenaic amphora.
490 480 bce by the kleophrades painter depicting the 4 horse chariot racing competition.
Athena on a panathenic amphora national archaeological museum of athens panathenaic amphorae were the amphorae large ceramic vessels that contained the olive oil given as prizes in the panathenaic games.
The panathenaia a state religious festival honored athena the patron goddess of athens.
It is however possible that these vessels were also sold as souvenirs or distributed by means other than direct award.
The official decoration on the front was a picture of a statue of athena fully armed.
On victors in the contests of the panathenaic festival in athens were awarded a standardized amphora containing one metretes about forty two quarts of olive oil from sacred groves in attica.
Some were ten imperial gallons 12 us gal.
Attic panathenaic amphora kleophrades painter greek attic active 505 475 b c 65 40 3 cm 25 9 16 15 7 8 in 77 ae 9 open content images tend to be large in file size.
Introduction bibliography panathenaic amphoras were produced in athens as prizes for the victors in the games held in that city every four years.
From the second quarter of the sixth century b c.
Typically filled with olive oil this type of trophy was awarded to chariot race winners at the panathenaic games in athens.
These amphorae had a special form with narrow neck and foot and a standard fashion of decoration.
Amphorae filled with oil pressed from olives from the sacred trees of athena were given as prizes in the panathenaic games.
Attic black figure amphora ca.
An early panathenaic prize amphora in the metropolitan museum of art metropolitan museum journal 34.
45 l and 60 70 cm 24 28 in high.
Special shape of attic amphoras.
Bentz 1998is an extensive discussion of the type.
Held every four years the festival included athletic musical and other competitions.
It is uncertain if the figures on the reverse of this piece depict wrestlers on pankratists contenders in a more brutal event which combined both boxing and wrestling.
Aspekte weiblicher nacktheit und entblossung in ihrer zeitlichkeit und zeitlosigkeit.
The panathenaia a state religious festival honored athena the patron goddess of athens.
Held every four years the festival included athletic and musical competitions.
Panathenaic amphoras traditionally represent athena standing between two doric columns surmounted by cocks and on the reverse side the event for which the vase was awarded.