object type / vase shape: attic black figure panathenaic prize-amphora
<p>- description A: Athena Promachos between doric columns surmounted by cocks; inscription: ΤΟΝ ΑΘΕΝΕΘΕΝ ΑΘΛΟΝ
- B: 2 young riders in petasos and chlamys throwing javelins onto a shield as target
- production place: Athens
- painter: Kuban Group (I: earlier)
- period / date: classical, ca. 425-400 BC
- material: pottery (clay)
- height: 56.0 cm
- findspot: Benghazi (Kyrenaika)
- museum / inventory number: London, British Museum 1903,0217.1
- bibliography: John D. Beazley, Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters, Oxford 1956, 411.1
- CVA London 1, plate 1.1
- Martin Bentz, Panathenäische Preisamphoren. Eine athenische Vasengattung und ihre Funktion vom 6.-4. Jh. v. Chr., Antike Kunst, Beiheft 18 (Basel 1998), cat. 5.229
- Beazley Archive Pottery Database 303119
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