Category:Panathenaic amphorae

Articles relating to the Panathenaic amphorae, amphorae, large ceramic vessels, that contained the olive oil given as prizes in the Panathenaic Games. Some were 10 impgal and 60 - 70 cm high. This oil came from the sacred grove of Athena at Akademia. The amphorae which held it had the distinctive form of tight handles, narrow neck and feet, and they were decorated with consistent symbols, in a standard form using the black figure technique, and continued to be so, long after the black figure style had fallen out of fashion.