Euphiletos Painter Panathenaic prize amphora

[2] Stemming from Proto-Corinthian roots, black-figure style includes incised details with silhouetted figures on a glossy vase.

Serving as a prize for winning these events, this amphora would have been filled with oil from Athena's sacred olive groves, which was a commodity held in respect by the Greeks.

Amphorae served primarily as vessels for storage evolving from pithos jars, and later, during the Late Geometric Period, they were used as marker vases for graves: their depictions and size giving indications of the social status of the deceased.

[2] Then during the Orientalizing period, small vessels called aryballos were used to hold more valuable oils like perfumes.

The Euphiletos painter painted during the sixth century BC and created many Panathenaic prize amphorae.