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Panathenaic Amphorae

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 October 2013

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Since the article by De Witte in Annali dell' Inst. 1877, p. 294, this subject has not received much attention from archaeologists, although the material has in the interval sensibly increased. In publishing here three documents of a somewhat new interest to the study of Panathenaic amphorae, I propose merely to offer some suggestions which may be worth consideration when the subject comes to be once more comprehensively worked out.

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Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1897

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page 182 note * See Bull. de Corr. Hell. 1896, p. 460 foll.; a very minute illustration of the mosaic is given in the general plan on Pl. V. g, Bull. de Corr. Hell.; for M. Couve's description, see p. 502.

page 183 note * Loc. cit., p. 462.

page 184 note * M. Couve has kindly furnished me with the following notes of other mosaics in the same series of houses at Delos: “B. C. H. 1895, p. 501, Salle h. La mosaique est très mutilée. Les motifs qui subsistent sont des ornements en forme de boucle, et des grecques entremêlées, multicolores. J'y ai noté les suivants, qui sont conservés avec un éclat extraordinaire; blanc, noir, rouge, jaune, vert, bleu, violet. Le motif le plus original est celui-ci: cercles divisés en quatre segments, deux rouges et deux noirs, sur fond blanc. Loc. cit. p. 502, Salle J. Le sol de cette petite pièce est dallé d'une mosaique. Le motif central est encadré dans un cadre de mosaique noire (1 m. by 1·40 m.); puis un second cadre, intérieur, également noire; dans l'intervalle, mosaique blanche; puis un bandeau de postes, en noir, sur fond blanc. Puis, au centre encadré par un bandeau jaune, un motif géométrique consistant en cubes (noirs, rouges, blancs).”

page 184 note † Homolle, in Mon. Grecs, No. 7 (1878), p. 48.Google Scholar

page 184 note ‡ Published by Barnsley in Archit. Assoc. Sketchbook, vol. ix.

page 185 note * Arch. Zeit., 1879, p. 153.

page 187 note * Newton, , Travels, ii., p. 100.Google Scholar

page 188 note * On the authority of this passage it has been assumed that there were in antiquity Panathenaic skyphi, and the same has been identified with a class of skyphi bearing the device of an owl within a laurel wreath (Birch, , Anc. Pottery, 2, p. 379Google Scholar). It is evident, however, that the passage gives no authority for this assumption.

page 189 note * Athenaeus, v. p. 199, d.

page 189 note † Cf. e.g., the Krates passage quoted on p. 188 above.

page 189 note ‡ That these are prize vases, and not merely, as has been suggested, emblematic of the oil trade, is probable from the fact that on one specimen (Num. Zeitschr., 1871, p, 34, No. 99) Nike crowns the amphora.

page 189 note § Cf. B. M. Cat. Coins, Attica, Pl. XVII., 5, 7.

page 190 note * The latest is Hemze in Bonner Studien, p. 40: cf. Stephani, in Compte Rendu, 1876, p. 35Google Scholar; Urlichs, Beitr. zur Kunstgesch., p. 54.

page 192 note * So von Ronde in Baumeister, Denkm. p. 1974.

page 192 note † Dennia in Trans. Roy. Soc. Lit., Ser. 2, ix., pt. i., p. 170.

page 193 note * For this form, see Kretschmer, Gr. Vaseninschr., p. 130; Meisterhans, Gramm, d. Att. Inschr., pp. 44—5. It is found already in the sixth, but is especially frequent in the fourth century B.C.

page 195 note * Cf. Kretschmer, Gr. Vaseninschr., p. 161. As further examples, the following maybe quoted: Μελα(ν)θίω, in J. H. S., ix, 261Google Scholar; Ἑπτέκε(ν)θος, in Bull. Corr. Hell., 1898, p. 124Google Scholar; and lastly, as an instance in which I have a certain personal interest, ᾿Απολλῶνος Ζμιθέως on a coin of Alexandria Troasof the second century B.C. (B. M. Cat., Coins, Troas, p. 11), to which M. Perdrizet has kindly called my attention.

page 195 note † See e.g., ᾿Αθ.Πολ. ch. 60.

page 196 note * It is true that the cleruchi sometimes had their own archon eponymos, as, for instance, at Delos (C. I. G., 2270); but there can scarcely have been a large enough community of them in Melos in the fourth and third centuries to make this probable there.

page 197 note * See Homolle, , Bull. Corr. Hell., i. p. 48.Google Scholar

page 197 note † C.I. A., iv. (suppl.), 2, No. 421; ii., 3, No. 1289.

page 197 note ‡ Head in Br. Mus. Cat., Attica, p. xxxi.

page 199 note * Dumont, , Eph. Att., i., p. 170.Google ScholarFoucart, in Rev. de Phil., 1894, p. 244Google Scholar, quotes an inscription from Rhamnus of the middle of the fourth century B.c., as giving the earliest mention known of a kosmetes; he considers that it confirms the reading κοσμήτην in Aristotle, ᾿Αθ.Πολ. ch. 42.

page 199 note † Dittenberger, De Eph.Att., p. 31.

page 199 note ‡ Torr, Cecil (Rev. Arch., 1895, ii. p. 1Google Scholar) proposes to identify the figure on the column in the amphora of 313 B.c. as the orator Lycurgus. But this type must stand with the others, and it would be difficult to find a similar historical explanation of any other instance.

page 199 note § Cf. Head, Br. Mus. Cat., Attica, p. lviii; and Th. Reinach in Rev. des Ét. Gr., i. p. 163.

page 200 note * At Delphi, one fragment of a Panathenaic vase was found in 1896, in the enceinte of the Pythian Apollo. M. Perdrizet has kindly given me the following description of it: “Il reste une partie du bras droit d'Athéna, et une partie de la colonne placée à droite de la déesse. Aucune inscription.”