Panathenaic Prize Amphora (storage jar)

the Marsyas Painter

340-339 BCE

Terracotta

Arthur M. Sackler Museum

A black-figure amphora depicts a woman in a long, flowing black chiton with white details, wearing a helmet and holding a shield. The vase has a reddish-brown body with black and white painted decoration. Side A: Athena Promachos advancing to right clothed in an archaic Ionic chiton ornamented with a dotted border in white and provided with rudimentary sleeves ending in two swallow-tails thrown over each shoulder, Attic helmet with tall crest, and brandishing a spear in her right while covering herself with a shield which she holds in her left. Her head, helmet, and right hand project into the upper border. On both shoulders and breast, crossing cords in white with a central knot which originally supported th e aegis, but now has almost entirely disappeared. Traces of a bracelet on her right wrist and sandals on her feet in light bro