[1240]. It is not likely that all of those given as prizes were painted. On the other hand, the number of the amphorae may denote the number of measures of oil given, the painted vases being, like modern silver cups, symbolical and honorific (C. Smith, loc. cit.).
[1241]. See p. [160] for a description.
[1242]. A fourth-century fragment at Athens has the name of the agonothetes instead of the archon: ἀγωνο]θετοῦ(ν)το[ς τοῦ δεῖνος. See Brit. School Annual, 1896–97, pl. 16 (b).
[1243]. J.H.S. xviii. p. 300.
[1244]. Riegl, Stilfragen, p. 176, notes the absence of all the usual B.F. patterns. The ivy-wreaths represent an old Boeotian tradition.
[1245]. See Ath. Mitth. 1888, pls. 9–12; J.H.S. xiii. pl. 4, p. 77 ff.; B.M. B 77–8.
[1246]. Six (see next note) quotes the Berlin vase, 1843 = Él. Cér. iv. 18, in illustration of this.
[1247]. Gaz. Arch. 1888, pp. 193 ff., 281 ff.
[1248]. E.g. B.M. B 691, 700.
[1249]. Cf. Mus. Ital. ii. pl. 3 = De Witte, Coll. à l’Hôtel Lambert, pl. 3.