Attic red-figure miniature bell-krater with depiction of an athlete
The main side of the vase depicts a sports scene. A young athlete, naked, prepares to make a long jump, holding in his outstretched hands a pair of swinging weights (special weights used by ancient athletes to help them jump successfully). Opposite him stands a young woman, dressed in a chiton, who is watching him with admiration.
On the other side of the vase, a young man is depicted, wrapped in his himation, a very common iconographic theme used for the secondary sides of Attic vases.
- Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, inv. n. ΜΘ 5206
- 400 – 375 BC
- H. 0.17 m. Base diam. 0.095 m. Rim diam. 0.185 m.
- Clay
- Provenance: Thessaloniki, cemetery at the Allatini area
Bibliography
- Καραμανώλη-Σιγανίδου, M.(1966). ΑΔ 21, Χρονικά Β2, σσ. 340.
- Θεσσαλονίκη. Από τα προϊστορικά μέχρι τα χριστιανικά χρόνια. Οδηγός της έκθεσης, (1986). σσ.95,98, εικ.84, Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο Θεσσαλονίκης, Αθήνα: Ταμείο Αρχαιολογικών Πόρων.
- Scanlon, T.F. (2002). Eros and Greek Αthletics, pp. 246, fig. 8.16, Oxford: Oxford University Press. For the long jump in ancient Greece, see:
- Miller, S.G. (2004). Ancient Greek Athletics, pp. 63-68, New Haven – London: Yale University Press.
- Wünsche, R. & Knauß, F. (Ed.), (2004). Lockender Lorbeer. Sport und Spiel in der Antike, Staatliche Antikensammlungen München, 119-127, München.
