Olympic victor monuments and Greek athletic art (1921)
Hyde, Walter Woodburn, 1871- · Washington, D.C. : Carnegie Institution of Washington · leaf 323
to oblong or oval spaces.1We reproduce a pancratiast scene from a Panathenaic amphora of Kit-tos, dating from the fourth century B.C., in the British Museum (Fig.59).2 This is a conventional representation of wrestling and boxingcombined. The pancratiast at the right of the group has rushed inwith… … Fig. 59. -Pankration Scene. From a Panathenaic Amphora by Kittos.British Museum, London. of chancery), or perhaps to hit him with his right hand. A thirdpancratiast is looking on from the extreme right, while a paidotribes,switch in hand, appears at the left. The fight on the ground is welldepicted…
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