Terracotta Panathenaic prize amphora
Unknown Artist
Obverse, Athena
Reverse, footrace
The Euphiletos Painter was trained in the black-figure technique. It is interesting to compare the firm, deliberate incision in his works with the looser, freer line of artists like the Berlin Painter. The footrace is one of the earliest known events in the Panathenaic games.
Credit: Rogers Fund, 1914
Ca. 530 B.C.
Terracotta; black-figure
62.2 x 62.2 cm
14.130.12
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018
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