Panathenaic price amphora (Berlin F 1832)

The Panathenaic price amphora in the Berlin Collection of Antiquities with the inventory number F 1832 is dated 480-470 BC. Dated. The 63 cm high amphora was excavated in Nola . It is attributed to the Berlin painter .

The rod ornament on the neck of the vase is completely black. On the front it is decorated with the image of Athenas . She wears an archaic chiton without folds, with a simple, curved hem. It is divided into strips by horizontal red lines, which are filled with engraved crosses, circles and stars. A border with hooks, crosses and meanders is painted at knee height . The aegis is painted red and is sickle-shaped. The skin of Athena is painted white, just like the hair of the red Gorgoneion on the shield .

On the back is a recently restored scene from the stadium run , in which four runners run to the left. The contours have been repainted in a new time, while only the legs of the front runner are in their original state. Bearded with short hair and naked, he stands with one foot on tiptoe while jumping wide with the other. The foremost and the rearmost lift the right leg, the rest the left leg. All raise their right hand.

literature

• Georg von Brauchitsch : The Panathenaic price amphoras. Teubner, Leipzig 1920, p. 32, online .
• JD Beazley : Attic Black-figure Vase-painters. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1956, p. 408, No. 4.