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Detail: Interior
Drinking cup (kylix) depicting a boxer
Greek
Late Archaic Period
about 500 B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Greece, Attica, Athens
Medium/Technique
Ceramic, Red Figure
Dimensions
Height: 8.8 cm (3 7/16 in.)
Diameter: 23 cm (9 1/16 in.)
Diameter: 23 cm (9 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number01.8021
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
Catalogue Raisonné
Caskey-Beazley, Attic Vase Paintings (MFA), no. 075.
DescriptionInterior: Athlete (nude youth) binding his hands for boxing. A pick on the ground behind him, a pair of jumping weights (halteres) hang in the field to his left. In field inscribed: "Athenodotos is handsome"(on interior) ("ATHENODOTOS KALOS"), "Handsome"(twice on interior) ("KALOS")
Exterior side A: Four warriors, nude except for their armor, do battle. In the center one comes from the left and spears his opponent in the genitals. While he bleeds, he ineffectually tries to draw his sword. In field, "The boy is handsome" (KALOS HO PAIS)
Exterior side B: Two warriors fight over another soldier who is dying from a fatal side wound.
Condition: Faces of exterior figures restored.
Exterior side A: Four warriors, nude except for their armor, do battle. In the center one comes from the left and spears his opponent in the genitals. While he bleeds, he ineffectually tries to draw his sword. In field, "The boy is handsome" (KALOS HO PAIS)
Exterior side B: Two warriors fight over another soldier who is dying from a fatal side wound.
Condition: Faces of exterior figures restored.
InscriptionsInscribed: "Athenodotos is handsome"(on interior) ("ATHENODOTOS KALOS"), "Handsome"(twice on interior) ("KALOS"), "The boy is handsome"(on exterior) (KALOS HO PAIS")
ProvenanceBy date unknown: Alfred Bourguignon Collection; by 1901: purchased by Edward Perry Warren from Alfred Bourguignon (according to Warren's records: Bourguignon label [on the vase]: Orvieto); purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren, December 1901