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569. Panathenaic Amphora, cv. 2 ft. TL in. Clay pale?
varnish black; design black,white and crimson, with incised lines;,
1. on a tablet, Pallas Athene hurling her spear ; in front, frorn
right to left, TON AGENEGN AGVON : EMI "I am one of
the prizes from Athens;" Athene stands with the left foot ad-
vanced, armed with a high-crested helmet, the regis and an Ar-
golic buckler with the device of a dolphin; she has long hair
falling down her neck, and wears a crimson, talaric chiton with
an upper garment or fold falling as low as the waist, both border-
ed with the Mreander pattern ; her regis is of the primitive form,
being made of leather with a fringe of thongs, worked so
as to imitate serpents; 2. rev. on a tablet, a biga driven at
speed by a seated charioteer, who holds in his right hand »
goad, in his left the kalaurops, a long pole terminating in a
crook, from which hang two pointed objects which were pr°'
bably of metal and used to incite the horses by making a
jingling noise ; with this staff he guides the horses, who have
no harness but headstalls, and are yoked like oxen to a trans-
verse bar fastened to the pole; on the hind quarter of one of
them appears a crimson mark where the goad has made a
wound; the charioteer is beardless and wears a crimson chiton j
the biga differs from the Greek chariot as it is usually repre~
sented, both in the form of the antyx, and also in the con-
struction of the wheel, which is held together, not by spokes
radiating from a common centre, but by a diametrical bar
divided into three nearly equal parts by two bars crossing it at
right angles ; 3. on the neck a Siren or Harpy, the hair
hanging down the neck, the wings spread; 4. rev. on the
neck, an owl, wings spread. T.B.
This very early and singular specimen of Athenian pottery was found in an
excavation made by Mr. Burgon at Athens in 1813, on a spot outside the ancient
wall of the city, close to the Porta? Acharnica:, and about 1G0 yards North-East of
the modern gate called Gribos-kapesi. It contained some remains of burnt bones
and also a Lekythos and five other small earthen vessels of various forms, see Nos.
2C03, 3039, 3047, 3050, 3056, infra. The great antiquity of this Amphora has
been inferred not only from the very archaic form of the letters of the inscription,
and the general style of the drawing, but also from some peculiar details, such as
the segis, the form of the biga, the mode of driving, and the unusual position
of the charioteer. Engraved, Millingen, Anc. Uned. Mon. I. PI. 1-3. Inghiraini>
Mon. Etrusc. v. Tav. xxxiii, iv. Miiller, Denkm. d. Alt. Kunst, Taf. xvii. For the
inscription see Brondsted, Trans. Roy. Soc. of Lit. II, p. 103. Boeckh, Corpus
Inscript. I, No. 33, pp. 49-50. Rose, Inscript. Grace. Vetust. p. 14. Tab. II.
5^0.—--------- cv. 2 ft. 1 in. Clay pale, varnish black j
design black, white and crimson, with incised lines; 1. on
a tablet, Pallas Athene hurling her spear, the left foot ad-
569. Panathenaic Amphora, cv. 2 ft. TL in. Clay pale?
varnish black; design black,white and crimson, with incised lines;,
1. on a tablet, Pallas Athene hurling her spear ; in front, frorn
right to left, TON AGENEGN AGVON : EMI "I am one of
the prizes from Athens;" Athene stands with the left foot ad-
vanced, armed with a high-crested helmet, the regis and an Ar-
golic buckler with the device of a dolphin; she has long hair
falling down her neck, and wears a crimson, talaric chiton with
an upper garment or fold falling as low as the waist, both border-
ed with the Mreander pattern ; her regis is of the primitive form,
being made of leather with a fringe of thongs, worked so
as to imitate serpents; 2. rev. on a tablet, a biga driven at
speed by a seated charioteer, who holds in his right hand »
goad, in his left the kalaurops, a long pole terminating in a
crook, from which hang two pointed objects which were pr°'
bably of metal and used to incite the horses by making a
jingling noise ; with this staff he guides the horses, who have
no harness but headstalls, and are yoked like oxen to a trans-
verse bar fastened to the pole; on the hind quarter of one of
them appears a crimson mark where the goad has made a
wound; the charioteer is beardless and wears a crimson chiton j
the biga differs from the Greek chariot as it is usually repre~
sented, both in the form of the antyx, and also in the con-
struction of the wheel, which is held together, not by spokes
radiating from a common centre, but by a diametrical bar
divided into three nearly equal parts by two bars crossing it at
right angles ; 3. on the neck a Siren or Harpy, the hair
hanging down the neck, the wings spread; 4. rev. on the
neck, an owl, wings spread. T.B.
This very early and singular specimen of Athenian pottery was found in an
excavation made by Mr. Burgon at Athens in 1813, on a spot outside the ancient
wall of the city, close to the Porta? Acharnica:, and about 1G0 yards North-East of
the modern gate called Gribos-kapesi. It contained some remains of burnt bones
and also a Lekythos and five other small earthen vessels of various forms, see Nos.
2C03, 3039, 3047, 3050, 3056, infra. The great antiquity of this Amphora has
been inferred not only from the very archaic form of the letters of the inscription,
and the general style of the drawing, but also from some peculiar details, such as
the segis, the form of the biga, the mode of driving, and the unusual position
of the charioteer. Engraved, Millingen, Anc. Uned. Mon. I. PI. 1-3. Inghiraini>
Mon. Etrusc. v. Tav. xxxiii, iv. Miiller, Denkm. d. Alt. Kunst, Taf. xvii. For the
inscription see Brondsted, Trans. Roy. Soc. of Lit. II, p. 103. Boeckh, Corpus
Inscript. I, No. 33, pp. 49-50. Rose, Inscript. Grace. Vetust. p. 14. Tab. II.
5^0.—--------- cv. 2 ft. 1 in. Clay pale, varnish black j
design black, white and crimson, with incised lines; 1. on
a tablet, Pallas Athene hurling her spear, the left foot ad-