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Wine cooler (psykter) depicting pentathletes
Greek
Archaic Period
about 520–515 B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Greece, Attica, Athens
Medium/Technique
Ceramic, Red Figure
Dimensions
Height: 34.4 cm (13 9/16 in.); diameter: 26.9 cm (10 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number01.8019
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
Catalogue Raisonné
Caskey-Beazley, Attic Vase Paintings (MFA), no. 067.
DescriptionScene of pentathletes practicing. Three pairs of nude javelin throwers and a pair of nude wrestlers. The athletes' trainers are draped and hold long switches. The javelins (akontia) each have a looped leather thong (ankyle) indicated in red paint. Two athletes are drawing the boundary lines in the ground for the javelin throw.
Inscriptions: "Philon" (PHILON); "Etearchos" (ETEARXOS); "Epilykos" (EPILUK[OS]; "Ptoiodoros" (PTOIODOROS); "Sostratos" (SOSTRATOS) (twice); "Eukrates" (EKRATES); "Eudemos" (EUDEMOS); "Eoppoki" (EOPPOKI); "Kimon" (KIMON); "Phayllos" (PHAULO[S]); "Xenophon" (XSENO[PHON]); "Enioas" (ENIOAS)
Condition: Considerably fractured and repaired.
Inscriptions: "Philon" (PHILON); "Etearchos" (ETEARXOS); "Epilykos" (EPILUK[OS]; "Ptoiodoros" (PTOIODOROS); "Sostratos" (SOSTRATOS) (twice); "Eukrates" (EKRATES); "Eudemos" (EUDEMOS); "Eoppoki" (EOPPOKI); "Kimon" (KIMON); "Phayllos" (PHAULO[S]); "Xenophon" (XSENO[PHON]); "Enioas" (ENIOAS)
Condition: Considerably fractured and repaired.
InscriptionsInscriptions: "Philon" (PHILON); "Etearchos" (ETEARXOS); "Epilykos" (EPILUK[OS]; "Ptoiodoros" (PTOIODOROS); "Sostratos" (SOSTRATOS) (twice); "Eukrates" (EKRATES); "Eudemos" (EUDEMOS); "Eoppoki" (EOPPOKI); "Kimon" (KIMON); "Phayllos" (PHAULO[S]); "Xenophon" (XSENO[PHON]); "Enioas" (ENIOAS)
ProvenanceProbably between 1876 and 1885: excavated by Riccardo Mancini at Orvieto (according to Caskey-Beazley, part 2, p. 3; according to Hartwig, “Tod des Pentheus,” Jb. Arch. Inst. 7, 1892, p.157, this psykter was discovered at the necropolis in Orvieto along with another psykter, which by 1888 was likewise in the Bourguignon collection). By 1890: Alfred Bourguignon, Naples (W. Klein, “Die Griechischen Vasen,” Denkschriften der kais. Ak. der Wiss., 1890, p. 65, no. 4); sold by Bourguignon to Edward Perry Warren (b. 1860 –d . 1928), London; December 1, 1901: sold by Warren to the MFA.