Terracotta Panathenaic Prize Amphora

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This resource includes an audio recording that describes the history of the production and distribution of Panathenaic Prize Amphoras, and it illuminates the historical context around the amphora, which would have been filled with olive oil from olive groves considered sacred to the Goddess Athena, and presented to winners of certain sporting events.

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Attributed to the Euphiletos Painter circa 530 BCE and currently on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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