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Detail: Interior
Drinking cup (kylix) with pentathletes
Greek
Early Classical Period
about 470–460 B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Greece, Attica, Athens
Medium/Technique
Ceramic, Red Figure
Dimensions
Overall: 11 x 22 x 29 cm (4 5/16 x 8 11/16 x 11 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number01.8033
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
Catalogue Raisonné
Caskey-Beazley, Attic Vase Paintings (MFA), no. 156.
DescriptionExterior side A: Two nude youths practise gymnastics- jumping and javelin-throwing - under the guidance of a trainer wearing a mantle. In field is a starting post . A toilet kit (sponge, aryballos, and strigil) hangs from a peg. Fragmentary inscription above the figures: ...N..N..[-]...N..
Exterior side B: A javelin thrower, a diskos thrower, and a jumper exercise beside a fluted starting post and a pick. A strigil, portable oil jar (aryballos), and sponge hang from a peg. Fragmentary inscription above the figures: KALO..P..N.
Interior: A youth wearing a mantle stands between a laver and a starting post. Brown is used for the details of the body. Red for the fillet, loop of the javelin and inscription. Greek inscription "Handsome" (KALOS) above the post.
Exterior side B: A javelin thrower, a diskos thrower, and a jumper exercise beside a fluted starting post and a pick. A strigil, portable oil jar (aryballos), and sponge hang from a peg. Fragmentary inscription above the figures: KALO..P..N.
Interior: A youth wearing a mantle stands between a laver and a starting post. Brown is used for the details of the body. Red for the fillet, loop of the javelin and inscription. Greek inscription "Handsome" (KALOS) above the post.
Inscriptions"Handsome!" (on interior) (KALOS)
On both sides of exterior above figures are fragmentary inscriptions:
Side A: ...N..N..[-]...N..
Side B: KALO..P..N
Interior: ΚΑLΟS
Exterior Side A: ...N..N..[-]...N..
Exterior Side B: KALO..P..N
On both sides of exterior above figures are fragmentary inscriptions:
Side A: ...N..N..[-]...N..
Side B: KALO..P..N
Interior: ΚΑLΟS
Exterior Side A: ...N..N..[-]...N..
Exterior Side B: KALO..P..N
ProvenanceBy date unknown: Alfred Bourguignon collection; by 1901: with Edward Perry Warren (according to Warren's records: bought privately from the collection of Alfred Bourguignon. Bourguignon's label [on the vase to indicate provenience]: Santa Maria [di Capua]); purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren, December 1901