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| Keywords: Vatican G 23 Group - Black-figure Pseudo-Panathenaic Amphora - Walters 482105 - Detail B.jpg On side A Athena is striding to the left with a spear in her raised left hand and a shield in her right with a large snake a popular shield device on Panathenaic vases of the late Archaic period She is wearing a patterned garment a high-crested helmet and the aegis from which several snake heads clearly emerge Two thin columns crowned by roosters frame the scene The reverse shows two young jockeys in high gallop in the heat of the race Both boys are nude and ride without saddles or stirrups guiding the horse with their reins The rider in the back is using a whip in his raised right hand to gain some ground on his opponent The focus is clearly on the rider on the left whose horse occupies the composition's foreground its head partially obscuring the other rider The prominence of the horse and rider captured at a decisive moment in the race may signal the contest's victor The amphora lacks the prize inscription on the front that is characteristic of small-scale copies created for trade and as commemorative souvenirs of the Panathenaic prize amphoras see Bentz 1998 19-22 Dorothy Hill noted that the piece is stylistically and thematically close to the work of the Eucharides Painter who painted at least three full-scale Panathenaic prize amphoras depicting two riders competing Maul-Mandelartz 1990 105 ca 500 480 BC late Archaic terracotta cm 41 26 4 accession number 48 2105 39632 St Audries Collection date and mode of acquisition unknown Sale Sotheby's February 23 1920 no 230 William Randolph Hearst San Simeon date and mode of acquisition unknown William Randolph Hearst Estate Sale May 1958 Walters Art Museum 1958 by purchase Museum purchase 1958 Heroes Mortals and Myths in Ancient Greece The Walters Art Museum Baltimore; Frist Center for the Visual Arts Nashville; San Diego Museum Of Art San Diego; Alexander S Onassis Public Benefit Foundation USA New York 2009-2011 place of origin Attica Greece Walters Art Museum license Ancient Greek black-figure pottery in the Walters Art Museum Group of Vatican G 23 Horses in ancient Greek pottery Ancient Greek equestrian sports Pseudo-Panathenaic amphoras Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs artist update | ||||
