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    Athena with shield and spear standing between Ionic columns

    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.

    Attic Black Figure Panathenaic amphora from Cervetri, H. 0.821 m.
    Attributed to Nikomachos Series, 336 BCE
    London, British Museum B 607

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    Nike with palm branch


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