. Greek athletic sports and festivals . Fio. 135,—Panathenaic amphora, in British Museum, B. of Pythodelus, 336. amphora (Fig. 135) which bears the name of the Archon Pytho-delus, 336 The glove seems to be formed of thick bands ofsome soft substance stretching along the arm, and bound roundby stout, stiff leather thongs fastened apparently between thefingers and the thumb. The youth to the left, who is w^aitingto fight the winner, is drawing the end tight with his the right is represented, in place of the usual judge, a draped. Fig. 136.—Boxer. Terme Museum,
. Greek athletic sports and festivals . Fio. 135,—Panathenaic amphora, in British Museum, B. of Pythodelus, 336. amphora (Fig. 135) which bears the name of the Archon Pytho-delus, 336 The glove seems to be formed of thick bands ofsome soft substance stretching along the arm, and bound roundby stout, stiff leather thongs fastened apparently between thefingers and the thumb. The youth to the left, who is w^aitingto fight the winner, is drawing the end tight with his the right is represented, in place of the usual judge, a draped. Fig. 136.—Boxer. Terme Museum, Rome.(From a photograph by Anderson.) 408 OH. XIX BOXING—HIMANTES OXEIS 409 and winged figure of Victory bearing in her hand a palm. Asimilar glove is represented on another Panathenaic vase, in theLouvre, belonging to the Archonship of Hegesias in 324 To bind on the hand these complicated thongs must havebeen a troublesome and lengthy process. And the introductionof the sphairai was followed almost immediately by the inven-tion of gloves which could be drawn on or off njore gloves, which are appropriately described as T/zavTe? o^ei?,are familiar to us from the seated boxer in the Terme at Rome(Fig. 136). They occur also in a marble figure of a boxer fromSorrento which is now at Naples (Fig. 137), on an arm also atNaples, and on a hand found at Verona.^ They consist of two
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