Athena Standing Between Ionic Columns
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Athena with shield and spear standing between Ionic columns
Attic Black Figure Panathenaic amphora from Cervetri. H. 0.821 m. Attributed
to Nikomachos Series, 336 BCE. British Museum B 607, London.
- Side A
- Athena stands, facing right, holding a shield in her left hand and a spear in her upraised right hand.
- The shield is turned so that the shield-device cannot be seen.
- She wears a belted himation and a high crested helmet.
- On either side of her is an Ionic column.
- The one on the left supports a statuette of Athena holding a branch, on which is perched an owl and a trophy stand. Running down the shaft of this column is the inscription PUTHODÊLOS ARCHÔN ("Pythodelos [being] archon").
- The column on the right is surmounted by a figure of Triptolemos in a winged chariot, behind which is a sheaf of corn. The inscription running down this shaft reads TÔN ATHÊNÊTHEN ATHLÔN ("One of the prizes from Athens").
- Side B
- To the right, stands Nike holding a palm branch.
- She wears a white chiton and a dark cloak over it.
- She holds a palm branch in her right (?) hand.
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