Tondo: man talking to a boy in the palaestra, detail of the upper part.

Interior: overview.

Tondo: man carrying a hare, talking to a boy in the palaestra.

Tondo: detail of the bench and boy's gear.

Tondo: man talking to a boy in the palaestra, detail of the upper part.

Handle, side A at left.

Collection: Martin von Wagner Museum, University of Würzburg
Summary: Tondo: man carrying a hare, talking to a boy in the palaestra.
Ware: Attic Red Figure
Painter: Attributed to Douris
Potter: Attributed to Python
Context: From Vulci
Date: ca. 480 BC - ca. 470 BC
Dimensions:

H. 0.094 m. D. 0.228 m.
Primary Citation: ARV2, 444, 239; Beazley Addenda 2, 240.
Shape: Cup
Region: Etruria
Period: Late Archaic/Early Classical

Condition:

Good

Decoration Description:

The cup is only decorated inside. Tondo: A man carrying a hare talking to a boy in the palaestra. A bearded and black haired man leaning on his cane talks to a boy standing at right. The man, facing right, bends down his head to the boy and brings his left hand to his chest. He wears a himation draped under his left arm and in his right hand carries a frightened, couching hare as a love gift for the boy. The boy is facing the man and looking down. He is completely wrapped in a mantle which covers even half of his head and, like the man, wears a red band on his hair. Behind the boy there is a bench and, hanging on the wall, a sponge and alabastron, his athletic equipment marking the scene as the palaestra or gymnasium. Between the two figures there is a big leaf with tendril. There must be a love relationship between them suggested by the hare, an usual love gift. According to Simon, the leaf also suggests the presence of Eros (Simon 1975b, 134).

Shape Description:

For the shape, Bloesch 1940, 100, Python no. 38.

Collection History:

From the Feoli Collection

Sources Used:

Simon 1975b, 134.

Other Bibliography:

Langlotz 1932, n. 482, pls. 152, 164; Wegner 1968b, 185f., 265ff.; Koch-Harnack 1983, 67, fig. 4; Beckel et al. 1983, 105, n. 45.