. Greek athletic sports and festivals . Fig. 167.—Silver tetradrachm and gold stater of Philip II. of Macedon,in the British Museum (enlarged). fastened to the front rim of the car. The other two horseswere the trace-horses (o-et/oac^opot). The details of the harnessand of the chariot do not concern us here. The two-horse chariot (crwoipts) as represented on Panathenaicvases is not really a chariot at all, but a sort of cart, the body ofwhich has been reduced so that nothing is left but the driversseat and a square open framework on either side. The driversits with his feet resting on a footbo
. Greek athletic sports and festivals . Fig. 167.—Silver tetradrachm and gold stater of Philip II. of Macedon,in the British Museum (enlarged). fastened to the front rim of the car. The other two horseswere the trace-horses (o-et/oac^opot). The details of the harnessand of the chariot do not concern us here. The two-horse chariot (crwoipts) as represented on Panathenaicvases is not really a chariot at all, but a sort of cart, the body ofwhich has been reduced so that nothing is left but the driversseat and a square open framework on either side. The driversits with his feet resting on a footboard suspended from thepole. On the Burgon vase he wears a short, sleeveless, purplechiton, and carries in one hand a goad, in the other a longcurved rod like a fishing-rod, to the end of which are fastenedcertain pieces of metal, which we may suppose made a jinglingnoise like bells.^ On the two other Panathenaic vases in the ^ In the catalogue this instrument is described as a KaXaOpoxp, but I can findno authority for this use of the
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