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Plate depicting athletes
Greek
Archaic Period
about 520–510 B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Greece, Attica, Athens
Medium/Technique
Ceramic, Red Figure
Dimensions
Diameter: 19 cm (7 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Bartlett Collection—Museum purchase with funds from the Francis Bartlett Donation of 1900
Accession Number03.785
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
Catalogue Raisonné
Caskey-Beazley, Attic Vase Paintings (MFA), no. 002.
DescriptionTwo nude young athletes conversing, one carrying a discus. Incised inscriptions: "Xenophon" (XSENOPHON); "Dorotheos" (DOROTHEOS).
Inscriptions"Xenophon" (XSENOPHON) and "Dorotheos" (DOROTHEOS)
ProvenanceDates unknown: according to L. D. Caskey and J. D. Beazley, Attic Vase Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, part 1, no. 2: Found in a tomb near Chiusi. Formerly in the Blaydes, Ancona and Hartwig collections; by 1903: with Edward Perry Warren (according to Warren's records: Bought in Rome. [Hartwig]).; purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren, March 24, 1903