179: Panathenaic Amphora

Department Archive
Collection 1936 Exhibition Collection
Reference No. 1936/1/5/37
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Scope and Content Card base with two watercolour illustrations attached. The number 179 is painted in the lower left corner. In the lower right corner is a later annotation in pencil giving a bibliographic reference. The original description in the catalogue reads: "Panathenaic Amphora, found on the site of the Temple of Athena Chalkioikos: these vases, of Attic fabric, were made and widely distributed in connexion with the Panathenaic Festivals at Athens; they usually have an archaic figure of Athena on one side and an athletic contest on the other."
Notes In the Exhibition Catalogue this is under the subheading "Pottery"