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Ancient Athletics

Lecture 13

Panathenaic Festival, Athens

 

1.

 

 

Plan of the Athenian Agora; end of the fifth century B.C.

John Camp, The Athenian Agora,1986, f.66

 

2.

 

 

Starting line, Athenian Agora

© David Gilman Romano

 

3.

 

 

Panathenaic way, Athens

© David Gilman Romano

 

4.

 

 

Roman Panathenaic Stadium, Athens; Excavation and reconstruction

 

5.

 

 

Panathenaic Prize Amphora, ca.566 B.C. (Burgon Amphora),

0.613m.; British Museum

 

6.

 

 

Panathenaic Prize Amphora, ca.550 B.C., obverse

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (1978.11.13)

 

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Panathenaic Prize Amphora, ca.550 B.C., reverse

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, (1978.11.13)

 

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Panathenaic Prize Amphora, ca.550 B.C., reverse

National Museum, Copenhagen

 

9.

 

 

Panathenaic Prize Amphora fragments, ca.550 B.C.

National Archaeological Museum, Athens, #2468