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Identifier: greekathleticspo00gard (find matches)
Title: Greek athletic sports and festivals
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Gardiner, E. Norman (Edward Norman), 1864-1930
Subjects: Athletics Sports Olympics Fasts and feasts
Publisher: London : Macmillan and Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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Text Appearing Before Image:
Fig. 134.—Interior of Fig. 151.
British Museum, E. 78.

Dr. Jüthner with a type of glove represented on certain
Panathenaic vases of the fourth century, and also on some
Etruscan cistae which belong to the early part of the third
century. On the latter the ball-like appearance to which they
owed their name is clearly marked. On the well-known Ficoroni
cista³ the hand appears to be covered by a glove which leaves

¹Sometimes the thongs are drawn only ou the hand, sometimes only on the
wrist, sometimes they are completely wanting. This is probably due to nothing
but carelessness, but in some cases these lines, which were usually painted in after
the rest of the figure was finished, may have simply worn off.
² Jüthner, Fig. 59. ³ Jüthner, Fig. 66.


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the fingers free but extends almost the whole length of the
forearm; and the glove is bound on by triple thongs, crossing
and recrossing each other and finally gathered together into a
bunch, and secured by passing through a loop at the back of
the hand. Very similar is the type represented on the B.M.
Text Appearing After Image:
FIG. 135,—Panathenaic amphora, in British Museum, B. 607.
Archonship of Pythodelus, B.C.. 336.

amphora (Fig. 135) which bears the name of the Archon Pytho-
delus, 336 B.C. The glove seems to be formed of thick bands of
some soft substance stretching along the arm, and bound round
by stout, stiff leather thongs fastened apparently between the
fingers and the thumb. The youth to the left, who is waiting
to fight the winner, is drawing the end tight with his teeth.
On the right is represented, in place of the usual judge, a draped

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