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A Panathenaic Amphora from Kameiros
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 October 2013
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When travelling in the island of Rhodes some ten years ago Dr. Duncan Mackenzie picked up on the Akropolis of Kameiros a handful of sherds, which I recently had occasion to examine. I found that several of them fitted together, and formed portions of an Attic b.-f. vase. The remains of one side represented a draped female figure standing to the left, and bearing a shield, with a pillar in front of her, while the five fragments of which the other portion consisted represented three armed men running to the left. In other words, here was a fragmentary Panathenaic amphora, recording a victory in the Armed Race.
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page 206 note 1 Dr. Mackenzie, whom I informed of the interest of the sherds, kindly gave me permission to bring them to England. They have been successfully cleaned and mended and are now, with his consent, deposited in the Ashmolean Museum.
page 206 note 2 From the brush of Mr. F. Anderson.
page 206 note 3 (1) B.M. Vases, B 143 (from Gela) ( = Von Brauchitsch, Über die Panathenaischen Preisamphoren, p. 30, No. 32). (2) Bologna, Pellegrini, Cat. Mus. Civ. 198, and p. 29, Fig. 2 ( = Von Br. op. cit. No. 17). (3) Naples, Heydemann, 2764 ( = Von Br. op. cit. No. 39). (4) (5) Stephani, Compte rendu, 1876, pp. 105 ff. Nos. 33, 34 ( = Von Br. op. cit. Nos. 52, 53, present whereabouts unknown, but excavated in Etruria).
page 207 note 1 Von Brauchitsch, op. cit. p. 159. He does not seem to me to prove his case, as it is hardly credible that imitations of the genuine article would have been dedicated in sanctuaries.
page 207 note 2 B 131 has red dots; B 134 has a pattern of dotted crosses.
page 207 note 3 B.S.A. xiii. p. 150, and Pl. V.
page 207 note 4 B 143.
page 207 note 5 No. 15 in his list ( = Canino Coll. 1193, present whereabouts unknown).
page 208 note 1 As Von Brauchitsch points out, op. cit. p. 138, the 
run to the left (whereas the competitors in the other running events represented on the archaic Panathenaic vases run to the right), in order to exhibit the blazons on the shields.
page 208 note 2 We hear of twenty shields and helmets being kept at Olympia for the competitors: at Athens there may have been as many competitors on some occasions. There was no limit, as in the stade-race.
page 208 note 3 Nos. 3, 4, and 5 of those mentioned above (i.e. the Naples vase and the two that are missing) have four runners, Nos. 1 and 2 have three.
page 208 note 4 B.M. Vases, B 108 has four, Von Br. op. cit. No. 106 (in the Louvre) has three.
page 208 note 5 Jahrb. 1895, p. 199.
page 209 note 1 Greek Athletic Sports and Festivals, pp. 285 ff.; J.H.S. xxiii. (1903), pp. 280 ff.
page 209 note 2 B.M. Vases, B 135.
page 209 note 3 B.M. Vases B 145 i E. Norman Gardiner, op. cil. p. 245, Fig. 39.
page 210 note 1 As has been suggested by E. Norman Gardiner, op. cit. p. 244; Von Brauchitsch rejects this explanation, classing them as imitations.
page 210 note 2 (a) ·11 × ·08× ·006 −·007 m.: clay of dirty greyish-brown colour: black paint which has fired dark-green near the edges; (b) ·10 × ·77 × ·005m.: clay of typical Attic pink colour: black paint verging on sepia near the edges: broken across near the bottom of the A. I could not hear what had happened to the rest of the vases. In the unlikely contingency of either or both being preserved in some European Museum I will gladly supply these fragments to fill the gap, but I fear they were broken up on the spot by unskilful hands.
page 211 note 1 Cf. Von Brauchitsch, op. cit. pp. 162, 163.
page 211 note 2 A.J.A. xii. (1908), p. 47.