Psykter fragments
Unknown Artist
Two adjacent fragments; head and shoulder of a bearded man.
These fragments adjoin 10.210.18 whose description is the following: The name of each figure is inscribed: the flute player, Smikythos; the diskos thrower, Antiphanes, and his trainer, Antimenes; the broad jumper, Dorotheos ("he is going to jump"); the javelin thrower, Batrrachos; Kleainethos, the judge crowning the boy fair Epainetos, and his trainer, Alketes. Two inscriptions refer to the vase itself: "drink me" and "I open my mouth wide."
Credit: Purchase, 1932 (by exchange)
Ca. 520–510 B.C.
Terracotta; red-figure
6.0 x 6.0 cm
32.11.5
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