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From the reverse of a fairly late Panathenaic amphora. Two naked youths running to the left, one behind the other -- foot race.
Pinkish buff clay. Glaze much peeled. Provenience uncertain. Leica ... 1934 ... Two naked youths running to the left, one behind the other -- foot race.
Pinkish buff clay. |
| Dionysos. Fight. Foot race. Fountain scene. Fox. Funeral games. Hermes. Goose. Giant. Gigantomachy. Discus thrower. Heron. Dog. Hippalectryon, youth riding a. Girl. Hismene. Goat. Homecoming. Hopline ... Agora 23 360 ... Foot race ... Horse race |
Part of body, all of base except for a bit of floor. Thin, brownish black glaze on inside. Two unlettered, non-joining wall fragments also belong. P.H. 0.123; diam. of base 0.115.
Torch race. At the left ... Late 5th century B.C ... P.H. 0.123; diam. of base 0.115.
Torch race. At the left are the lower part of the shaft and a corner of the base of a goal post; then the lower legs and feet of a youth to right, holding a lighted torch (shaft), facing another (a bit of body). A non-joining unlettered fragment (not illustrated) shows the lower leg and frontal foot as well as the tip of a lighted torch (this figure is probably to the left of the goal post), and another (not illustrated) gives the upper right corner of the panel. ... For the torch race, see 663. |
Mended with missing pieces restored in plaster, notably, nearly all of the rim, both handles, lower part of body, and all of foot. Rest. H. 0.425; rest. diam. of rim 0.043.
A, torch race (illustrated) ... Probably early 4th century B.C ... Mended with missing pieces restored in plaster, notably, nearly all of the rim, both handles, lower part of body, and all of foot. Rest. H. 0.425; rest. diam. of rim 0.043.
A, torch race (illustrated). ... For a discussion of the actual race, see 118. |
| Eleven non-joining fragments, some mended from several, preserving parts of obverse and reverse and a piece of the rim. Heavy incision; very poor glaze, black to red and much peeled, in many places leaving ... 25 June 1947 ... Reverse: Horseback race?
c) May be part of the column.
d) and e) Head and chest of horse.
f) Belly.
g) Foot of a rider with bit of horse near break above(?).
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| Mended from four pieces; about three-quarters of the ring foot preserved and a third of the walls; none of the rim. Around the foot, parallel black bands; above, a band of rays, alternately solid black, ... 1933 ... Mended from four pieces; about three-quarters of the ring foot preserved and a third of the walls; none of the rim. Around the foot, parallel black bands; above, a band of rays, alternately solid black, and black outline with white filling, a swastika between each pair. ... At the top of the fragment, set off by a groove, another decorated zone, with a chariot race: part of a chariot and a pair of horse's legs remain.
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Two non-joining fragments. Fragment a comes from the lower part of the vase; fragment b is a shoulder fragment. Glaze on b is slightly abraded; streaky and pitted on inside. P.H. a) 0.175; max. dim. b) ... Ca. 420 B.C ... Sacrifice of a bull in celebration of a victory in a torch race, the figures continuing around the vase without interruption. ... A youth (legs, left forearm) to left rests his right foot on the second step of the altar. ... For a discussion of the torch race, see Froning, Dithyrambos, pp. 78--81.
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http://agathe.gr/guide/panathenaic_way.html Panathenaic Way Numerous roads led in and out of the Agora square. By far the most important, however, was the broad street known as the Dromos or Panathenaic Way, the principal thoroughfare of the city ... It seems also to have served as the running track for foot races before a proper stadium was built, and as the training ground for the young recruits of the Athenian cavalry. ... As the race made its way along the Panathenaic Way, the armed passenger was expected to jump on and off the moving chariot. |
| About half of vase preserved, mended from many fragments, most of which unite to form one side of the body of the bowl (a); ten more form a fragment from the top of the bowl and the rim (b). Bowl rounded ... 9 March 1932 ... One figure dips his wine from a large footed amphora with a high-handled kantharos.
2. a) From left to right: end of chariot race scene: nose and forefeet of galloping horse; large tripod, and bearded male figure in long tunic advancing toward it, holding knife(?).
... Traces of another hunter attacking from the front: his foot and the point of his spear, about to pierce the lowered jaws of the boar, alone preserved at the extreme right edge of fragment.
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