Pseudo-Panathenaic Amphora with a Musical Competition

ca. 500-485 BCE (Late Archaic)

26.9 cm 43.5 cm

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The image on the obverse of this amphora may represent the "mousikoi agones," or musical competitions, of the Panathenaic festival (Bundrick 2005, 160-74). In the center of the scene, a bearded man clad in an ankle-length white chiton stands on a "bema," or podium. Facing righ...

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Ernest Saulmann, Florence, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Joseph Brummer, Paris and New York, 1936, by purchase [Brummer inv. no. P13083]; William Randoph Hearst, San Simeon, 1937, by purchase; Garrett Chatfield Pier Sale, Anderson Galleries, 1958; Walters Art Museum, 1958, by purchase.
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