Manner of Peleus Painter
GreekRed-figure Bell Krater: Torch Race with Prize Hydria; Three Youths, c. 430 BC-420 BC
Vessel
Greek
, 5th century BC
Classical period, High, c. 450-404 BC
Creation Place:
Gela (Sicily)
Terracotta
36.1 cm h x 39.6 cm diam. (14 3/16 x 15 9/16 in.)
Beazley Archive Database #213533
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of David M. Robinson
, 1960.344
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
, Description
Side A: Torch race: two runners with torches, altar, olive tree, prize hydria (water jar).
Side B: Three youths, one with strigil, another with staff.
Under rim: olive wreath; ground line: meander pattern; tongue pattern at handle attachments.
Recomposed from fragments, with some inpainting.
Side B: Three youths, one with strigil, another with staff.
Under rim: olive wreath; ground line: meander pattern; tongue pattern at handle attachments.
Recomposed from fragments, with some inpainting.
Bibliography
Susan B. Matheson, Polygnotos and Vase Painting in Classical Athens, (The University of Wisconsin Press, 1995), pp. 108-115, pl. 97, p. 115.
Rosalba Panvini and Filippo Giudice, Ta Attika: Attic Figured Vases From Gela, L'Erma di Bretschneider (Rome, 2003), p. 395 (fig. L49), p. a109
Stephen Miller, Ancient Greek Athletics, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven, 2004), p. 141, fig. 227
Rosalba Panvini and Filippo Giudice, Ta Attika: Attic Figured Vases From Gela, L'Erma di Bretschneider (Rome, 2003), p. 395 (fig. L49), p. a109
Stephen Miller, Ancient Greek Athletics, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven, 2004), p. 141, fig. 227
Exhibition History
Veder Greco a Gela, Palazzo Pignatelli, Gela, 01/15/2004 - 03/16/2004
The Greek Athlete and the Games, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 07/20/2004 - 11/28/2004