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Ancient Athletics

Lecture 19

Greek Athletic Events (Equestrian Events)

 

1.

 

 

Panathenaic Amphora, ca. 500-490 B.C. Eucharides Painter

London, British Museum, B 133

 

2.

 

 

Bronze horse and jockey, ca. 150 B.C. (Cape Artemesion shipwreck)

Athens, National Archaeological Museum

 

3.

 

 

Detail of bronze jockey, ca. 150 B.C. (Cape Artemesion shipwreck)

Athens, National Archaeological Museum

 

4.

 

 

Attic Black-Figure Amphora, 550-540 B.C. Exekias ?

London, British Museum B 273

 

5.

 

 

Panathenaic Amphora, 403-402 B.C.

London, British Museum B 606

 

6.

 

 

Silver Tetradrachm of Rhegion, 480-460 B.C.

London, British Museum

 

7.

 

 

Gold Stater of Philip II of Macedonia, ca. 350 B.C.; Obverse: head of Apollo; Reverse: victorious synoris

University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, #29-126-59
© David Gilman Romano