Advanced Search 
View: Side B
Jar (pelike) with athlete tossing a ball (obverse) and flying Nike (reverse)
Painted by: the Sabouroff Painter
Greek
Classical Period
about 450 B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Greece, Attica, Athens
Medium/Technique
Ceramic, Red Figure
Dimensions
Overall: 16.8cm (6 5/8in.)
Diameter: 13.5cm (5 5/16in.)
Diameter: 13.5cm (5 5/16in.)
Credit Line
Bartlett Collection—Museum purchase with funds from the Francis Bartlett Donation of 1900
Accession Number03.818
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
DescriptionSide A: A youth wearing a fillet balances on a rock (barely visible in faint traces of white paint) while tossing a small ball in the air.
Side B: Flying Nike carries a lotus branch and a floral bud.
Ball games were usually played in groups – here the youth appears to be playing a balancing and catching game, perhaps the one known as ourania (‘throwing the ball up towards the sky”).
Side B: Flying Nike carries a lotus branch and a floral bud.
Ball games were usually played in groups – here the youth appears to be playing a balancing and catching game, perhaps the one known as ourania (‘throwing the ball up towards the sky”).
ProvenanceBy 1903: with Edward Perry Warren (according to Warren's records: The following objects [MFA 03.805-03.833, 03.836-03.837, 03.906] were found in one cemetery in Campania.); purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren, March 24, 1903