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Pentathlon scene from Ancient Greece, featuring two javelin throwers. The first figure holds his javelin at the carry, while the third figure aims with his; the fingering of the amentum is clearly shown on each. Panathenaic amphora, about 525 B.C. British Museum.
Image and description source: 'Throwing the Javelin' in
Athletics of the Ancient World
(1930), Gardiner, E. Norman. Reprinted with corrections, Oxford:Oxford University Press, 1967, p.170, fig. 139.
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