pelike
- Museum number
- 1978,0411.6
- Description
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Pottery: red-figured pelike (storage-jar).
(a) A discobolos and paidotribes. On the left a youth, nude, wearing a fillet with a vertical piece over the forehead, strides to right and bends forward, about to swing back the discos which is poised on his right forearm. On the right a taller youth, wreathed and draped, the paidotribes, stands in three-quarter face to left, leaning his right arm on the end of a long forked stick, held obliquely across his body. Between the two figures hangs an aryballos with cords.
(b) Draped ephebos standing to right beside a stele.
The surface of a has received a dent while the clay was soft. Purple cords of aryballos, fillet, wreath. Brown inner markings. Eye in profile with eyelash. Below and above each side, egg pattern.
- Production date
- 440BC-420BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 16 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- BM Cat. Vases
For the pose of the discobolos, cf. BM Vase E339.
- Location
- On display (G69/dc8)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1980 5 Jun- 26 Oct, London, BM, The Ancient Olympic Games
- Acquisition date
- 1753-1850
- Acquisition notes
- Previously unregistered.
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1978,0411.6
