English: 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.