Panathenaic Amphora

between 375 and 370 BCE

Asteios Group Greek

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Ancient Greek and Roman, Level 2, South Wing

Panathenaic Amphora: 1 of Collection Gallery

Panathenaic Amphora: 2 of Collection Gallery

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About the Artwork

The amphora is a fine example of the vessels presented to the winner of an event in the athletic games held every four years in Athens. On one side Athena, the patron goddess, is shown as protector, wearing an archaic form of helmet and carrying a shield and spear. On the other side four male figures are shown running, indicating that the prize was for the winner of a foot race. An inscription running vertically down the vessel records the amphora as a prize "From the games in Athens."

Title Panathenaic Amphora

Artwork Date between 375 and 370 BCE

Artist Asteios Group

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Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Greek

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Clay

Dimensions Overall (vessel): 28 × 15 1/4 inches (71.1 × 38.7 cm) Overall (lid): 5 3/4 × 8 5/8 inches (14.6 × 21.9 cm) Overall (with lid): 33 3/4 × 15 1/4 in. (85.7 × 38.7 cm)

Classification Ceramics

Department Greco-Roman and Ancient European

Credit Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 50.193

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Inscriptions Inscribed, vertically along left column: TONAQENEQENAQLON (a prize from the games at Athens)

Provenance

found at Cyrene

collection Richard Norton (Boston, Massachusetts, USA and Rome, Italy). 1909, loaned to Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Loan #MFA 368.09 (Boston, Massachusetts, USA). dealer, Charles L. Morley (New York, New York, USA)

1950-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Robinson, F.W. "Recent Acquisitions of Ancient and Medieval Art." Bulletin of the DIA 31, 3/4 (1951-1952): pp. 58-80 (repr.).

Beazley, J. D. Attic Black-figure Vase Painters. Oxford, 1956, p. 412, no. 3 [attribution to Asteios Group]

Cummings, F. J., and C.H. Elam., eds. DIA Handbook.Detroit, 1971, pp. 10, 33.

Greek Vase-Painting in Midwestern Collections. Chicago, 1979 - 1980, pp. 222-223, cat. 125. [exh. organized by W. G. Moon and L. Berge]

Eschbach, N. Statuen auf Panathenäischen Preisamphoren des 4. Jhs v. Chr., Mainz. 1986, p. 19, cat. 21, (pl. 5, nos. 1-2, figs. 9,10).

Meyer, M. "Review of Statuen auf Panathenäischen Preisamphoren des 4. Jhr. v. Chr. by N. Eschbach." Gnomen 59 (1987): pp. 142-145.

Carpenter, T.H., T. Mannack, and M. Mendonça. Oxford, 1989, p. 107.

Valvanis, P. "La proclemation des vainquers aux Panatheénées." Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 114 (1990): p. 325-359, no. 10.

___________. Panathenaikoi amfreis apo tin Eretria. Athens, 1991, p. 58, no. 63; p. 68, no. 95; p. 94, no. 187; p. 115, no. 271; p. 120, no. 288; p. 325.

Goddess and Polis: The Panathenaic Festival in ancient Athens. Princeton, 1992, pp. 33, 83, 160. [exh. organized by J. Neils]

Henshaw, Julia P., ed. A Visitors Guide: The Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1995 p. 110 (repro.).

Hamilton, R., and J. Neils, ed. "Panathenaic Amphoras: The Other Side." Worshipping Athena: Panathenaia and Parthenon. Madison, 1996, pp. 152-53.

Bentz, M. "Panathenäische Preisamphoren, Antike Kunst Beiheft 18 (supplement), 1998, p. 167.

Games for the Gods: The Greek Athlete and the Olympic Spirit. Exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts. Boston, 2004, p. 172, cat. 26. [not in exhibition]

Madigan, B. Corinthian and Attic Vases in the Detroit Institute of Arts. Monumenta Graeca et Romana, Vol. 12, Leiden, 2008, pp. 15-16, cat. 23 (figs. 24-25).

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attributed to Asteios Group, Panathenaic Amphora, between 375 and 370 BCE, clay. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund, 50.193.