Triumphant athlete
Black-figure Panathenaic amphora. Attic.From the Boulas group.
Clay. End of the 5th — beginning of the 4th century BCE.
Height: 7.1 cm. Inv. No. Б. 9201.Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum
Triumphant athlete.
Black-figure Panathenaic amphora. Attic.
From the Boulas group.
Clay. End of the 5th — beginning of the 4th century BCE.
Height: 7.1 cm.
From the Boulas group.
Clay. End of the 5th — beginning of the 4th century BCE.
Height: 7.1 cm.
Inv. No. Б. 9201.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum
(Санкт-Петербург, Государственный Эрмитаж).
Origin:
Unknown; acquired in 1955.
Description:
This little vase shows on one side a triumphant athlete and on the other a diaulos runner. The stride is long.
L. Utkina, D. Vanhove
Literature:
K. S. Gorbounova, The Attic black-figure Vases at the Hermitage (Leningrad, 1983) no. 191 p. 212.
Credits:
© 1993. Photo, text: Olympism in antiquity. Olympic Museum Lausanne. Bertelsmann UFA. Industria Gráfica S. A. Barcelona, 1993, p. 105 cat. no. 48.
© Photo — M. Verhasselt (Brussels-Dilbeek).
© 1993 — Comité International Olympique.
© Photo — M. Verhasselt (Brussels-Dilbeek).
© 1993 — Comité International Olympique.
