Side B: strigil and aryballos

Side B: seated athlete

Side B: overview from right

Side A: athlete and pick

Side A: upper body of athlete

Side A: overview

Collection: Tampa Museum of Art
Summary: Side A: athlete picking sand at palaestra. Side B: seated athlete.
Ware: Attic Red Figure
Painter: Attributed to the Triptolemos Painter
Context: Said to be from Vulci
Date: ca. 480 BC
Dimensions:

H. 0.078 m.
Primary Citation: ARV2, 367, no. 102, 1648.
Shape: Skyphos
Beazley Number: 203894
Region: Etruria
Period: Late Archaic

Decoration Description:

Side A: athlete with pick to left loosens soil of field at palaestra. He wears a red fillet. At right is a stone pillar. At left hanging from a peg is a strigil and a flat-bottomed aryballos with red cords.

Side B: athlete in red fillet sits to right, with hands around his knee. A fillet hangs at right. To right are a strigil and flat-bottomed aryballos with red cords.

Shape Description:

Glaux.

Collection History:

Tampa Museum of Art, Joseph Veach Noble Collection. Ex colls. Hertz, Forman, Higgins, Mond, Lord Nathan of Churt.