pelike
- Museum number
- 1836,0224.197
- Description
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Pottery: red-figured pelike.
(a) Two athletes. On left a discobolos strides forward, with disc poised on his right hand and forearm, preparing to hurl it; he raises his left arm as if for balance before swinging the disc back. On the right a second athlete is seated to left on a sand heap (?) in an attitude of repose, with his hands clasped beneath his thighs: above, an aryballos hangs from a rectangular object.
(b) A woman, closely draped in an himation, with saccos and earrings, standing to right. Her chiton is not indicated.
Graceful style. Purple cords of aryballos; the ground on which the youth sits in a is indicated by a conical heap of purple dots. Brown inner markings. Eye in profile. Below and above each side, a strip of egg pattern, the egg filled in with black.
- Production date
- 440BC-430BC
- Dimensions
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Height: 16.51 centimetres
- Location
- On display (G20a/dc39)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1980 5 Jun-26 Oct, London, BM, The Ancient Olympic Games
1995 Lausanne, Olympic Museum, Olympism in Antiquity
- Acquisition date
- 1836
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1836,0224.197