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Kylix (drinking cup): boxers and trainers
Artist: The Triptolemos Painter (Greek)
Date: about 490 BCE
Dimensions:
H: 5 5/16 in. (13.5 cm); Diam (lip): 12 3/4 in. (32.3 cm); Diam (with handles): 16 1/8 in. (41 cm); Diam (foot): 4 13/16 in. (12.2 cm)
Medium: Red Figure; Wheel-thrown, slip-decorated earthenware
Place of Origin: Greek, Attic
Classification: Ceramics
Credit Line: Purchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number: 1961.26
Label Text:Both the interior and exterior of this kylix shows athletes with their trainers. One side of the exterior shows young men training with javelins. The interior and the other exterior side show boxers. Several of them are wrapping their hands with leather thongs. Unlike modern boxing gloves, the things were not meant to soften the blows, but to protect the boxers’ hands. Greek boxing was a brutal sport. Blows to the body were not often used. Instead most of the effort was concentrated on the face and head. A famous statue of a boxer in the National Museum in Rome shows the consequences of the sport. Notice the broken nose, the “cauliflower” ears, and the scars on the face.
The Triptolemos Painter is an anonymous Athenian artist who was identified from his painting style and given his name by modern scholars from a vase showing legendary Greek prince Triptolemos, today in the Louvre Museum.
The Triptolemos Painter is an anonymous Athenian artist who was identified from his painting style and given his name by modern scholars from a vase showing legendary Greek prince Triptolemos, today in the Louvre Museum.
DescriptionInside: boxer and trainer; Outside: boxers and trainers, javelin throwers
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