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lekythos

Object Type
Museum number: 1772,0320.394
Description: Pottery: black-figured lekythos (oil-flask). Purple accessories. On the shoulder, palmettes. Two athletes to right, nude and beardless; the hinder one holds two spears in right hand, and halteres (jumping weights) in left. The other holds out a diskos in both hands; on either side of him are two poles fixed in the ground (probably to indicate the place from which the diskos was to be thrown). Facing him is a paidotribes (trainer), beardless, with fillet, embroidered himation, and wand.
Producer name
Cultures/periods
Production date: 500BC-480BC
Production place: Made in: Attica (Greece)
Materials
Ware
Technique: painted; incised
Dimensions: Height: 23.30 centimetres
Curator's comments: BM Cat. Vases D'Hancarville, i. pls. 66-68; Inghirami, Vasi Fitt. i. pl. 84; Krause, Gymnastik, pl. xiii. 47, p. 452; Welcker, Zeitschr. 1818, pl. iv, 17, p. 265; Kietz, Diskoswurf, pp. 62, 74.
Bibliographic references: Vase / Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum (B576); Old Catalogue / A Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum (618)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: athlete; classical sport; discus
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1772
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1772,0320.394