Attic Panathenaic Amphora Fragment (part of 81.AE.203.6.2)

Composed of fourteen joined sherds, this fragment gives the upper body of Athena striding to the left. She brandishes her spear with her right hand, and carries a shield (bull blazon) on her left. She wears an aegis (patterned inside with alternating red and black stripes, with incised details in the black), a helmet decorated with a palmette, and a bracelet on her raised arm. Her white skin is well preserved, as is the added red for her clothing, helmet crest and shield rim. At far left, cockerel, standing on a column (the cockerel on the right side is preserved on the joining fragment 81.AE.203.6.2.2). The Etruscan graffito is inscribed to the left of Athena’s head, overlapping the left cockerel.