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Drinking cup (kylix) depicting palaistra scenes

Red-figure Penthesilea Painter · Kylix · about 460 B.C.

Exterior: One side depicts a boy bending into a runner's starting position, a trainer with a switch, and a boy holding a jumping weight (halter). The other side shows another trainer with a switch, a boy holding javelins and a discus bag, and another boy about to soften the ground for the runners with a pickax. inscriptions in field. "Kalos ho pais" "the boy is beautiful" Interior: Youth talking and gesticulating to a seated youth. Inscription in field: "kalos ho pais" "the boy is beautiful"

Shape

Kylix

Technique

Red-figure

Period

Early Classical Period

Date

about 460 B.C.

Culture

Greek

Painter

Penthesilea Painter