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Photographer: Trustees of the British Museum
Artist: Calliope Painter
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H: 12.7 cm
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Dates to c. 460-430 BCE. The stick the nude athlete holds has been identified as potentially a hurling rod (British Museum 2017). British Museum. "pelike." The British Museum Collections Online. Accessed July 17, 2017. http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=399105&partId=1&searchText=greek+athlete&page=1
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Attributed to the Trustees of the British Museum under the license CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0
Abstract
Red-figure pelike depicting athletes and a paidotribes. On the obverse, a nude male discobolos wearing a wreath and holding a discus faces a seated paidotribes who wears a wreath and is holding a staff. On the reverse, a nude male athlete wearing a fillet and holding a stick.
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Origin Place Name
Attica
Origin Country
Greece