. Greek athletic sports and festivals . d a chariot-race, was an heirloom whichhad been won by some ancestor of the builder of the Panathenaic amphora is, however, still represented on1 Cecil Smith in iii. 183 ff. 2 /j^ p]^ ^vi. XI PANATHENAIC AMPHORAE 245 Athenian coins, and on a late relief adorning a marblechair which was probably one of the seats reserved for thejudges or agonothetai at the Panathenaea^ (Fig. 40). Thevase, which holds a branch, stands on a table, on which are alsothree crowns. Underneath the table is a palm branch, and bythe side of it is represented Athen
. Greek athletic sports and festivals . d a chariot-race, was an heirloom whichhad been won by some ancestor of the builder of the Panathenaic amphora is, however, still represented on1 Cecil Smith in iii. 183 ff. 2 /j^ p]^ ^vi. XI PANATHENAIC AMPHORAE 245 Athenian coins, and on a late relief adorning a marblechair which was probably one of the seats reserved for thejudges or agonothetai at the Panathenaea^ (Fig. 40). Thevase, which holds a branch, stands on a table, on which are alsothree crowns. Underneath the table is a palm branch, and bythe side of it is represented Athenes sacred olive-tree. Theappearance of the vase on the relief and on coins suggests thatat this period the earthenware vase had been replaced by ametal vase, but this theory still awaits confirmation. Though the Panathenaic programme contained a considerablenumber of local events, these were of quite secondary importancein comparison with the open competitions which, if hardlyPanhellenic, were certainly Pan-Ionic. It was for these open. Fig. 30,—Panathenaic (?) amphora from Camirus. Bibliotlieque Nationale, 243. competitions that the sacred oil and the Panathenaic amphoraewere awarded. In the Thesea, on the contrary, most of the com-petitions were confined to the youth of Attica, and even in thosewhich were open to foreigners, the extreme rareness of foreignsuccesses sufficiently indicates the local character of the Thesea 2 were instituted in the year 476 or 475 tocelebrate the discovery and restoration to Athens of the bonesof the national hero Theseus. The popularity of the worshipof Theseus at this period is abundantly attested by the red-figured vases, on which the story of Theseus now takes the ^ Stuart and Revett, Antiquities of Athens, iii. 3, p. 20 ; Sclireiber, Atlas, xxv. 9. Mommsen, op, cit. p. 278 fl. 246 GREEK ATHLETIC SPORTS AND FESTIVALS CHAP. place of the labours of Heracles. The Thesea were associatedwith certain primitive agricultural rite
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