Olympic victor monuments and Greek athletic art (1921)
Hyde, Walter Woodburn, 1871- · Washington, D.C. : Carnegie Institution of Washington · leaf 342
B. C, as the last of the series is dated 313 B. C. In thisarticle he publishes a mosaic found on Delos (PI. XVI, a) and dating from the early second cen-tury B. C, which reproduces a Panathenaic amphora with an illustration of a chariot-race—thelatest date at which either a prize-amphora (or… … REPRESENTATIONS OF THE CHARIOT-RACE. 263 vase in the British Museum,1 dating from the eighth century B.C. Itseems to be a two-horse car, as we should expect at this early date,though the artist has drawn but one horse. The charioteer is clothedin a long chiton, a custom which was generally kept…
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