Panathenaic price amphora (Sparta)

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The Panathenaic prize amphora in the Archaeological Museum of Sparta was found in 1907 in the temple of Athena Chalkioikos in Sparta. It is made around 510–500 BC. Dated and attributed to the Leagros group .

The approximately 53 cm high vase was found fragmented and put back together again. As usual, Athena is depicted on the front . The side serpents of the Aegis are large and carefully engraved, the indication of the scales is fleeting. A siren looking to the right is shown on the shield . Only part of the inscription is included. On the back there is a scene from the chariot race. A team of four gallops to the left. The bearded driver wears a long white robe with red cross ribbons over his chest. In front of the team there is a white target column with a base.

literature

  • Georg von Brauchitsch : The Panathenaic price amphoras . Teubner, Leipzig 1910, pp. 27-28 online
  • Guy Dickens: Laconia I. Excavations at Sparta, 1907. § 7. The Hieron of Athena Chalkioikos. In: The Annual of the British School at Athens. No. 13, Session 1906–1907, pp. 137–154, here pp. 150–152 and plate V, online text and illustration .
  • JD Beazley : Attic Black-figure Vase-painters. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1956, p. 369, no.112.
  • Martin Bentz : Panathenaic price amphoras. An Athenian type of vase and its function from the 6th - 4th century BC Chr. (= Ancient Art. Supplement 18). Association of Friends of Ancient Art, Basel 1998, ISBN 3-909064-18-3 , p. 132, No. 6.097, plate 32 (also: Regensburg, Univ., Habil.-Schr., 1997).