Art of the Classical World in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

2007

Central N5871.5 MK71. (Every effort has been made to contact copyright owners of the images displayed in this online exhibition. If any issues arise from their display, please contact Special Collections, University of Otago, special.collections@otago.ac.nz)

New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Attributed to the Euphiletos painter, this Greek amphora would have contained olive oil and would have been the prize for the winner of an event in the Panathenaic games in the 6th century BC. The black-figure image depicts men participating in a foot race, with the slower beardless youth coming last. The other side shows the goddess Athena. The vase is held in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.