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Drinking cup (kylix) depicting a boxer

Drinking cup (kylix) depicting a boxer

about 500 B.C.
Place of ManufactureAthens, Attica, Greece
Medium/TechniqueCeramic, Red Figure
DimensionsHeight: 8.8 cm (3 7/16 in.)
Diameter: 23 cm (9 1/16 in.)
Credit LineHenry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession number01.8021
On View
On view
ClassificationsVessels
InscriptionsInscribed: "Athenodotos is handsome"(on interior) ("ATHENODOTOS KALOS"), "Handsome"(twice on interior) ("KALOS"), "The boy is handsome"(on exterior) (KALOS HO PAIS")
ProvenanceBy date unknown: Alfred Bourguignon Collection; by 1901: purchased by Edward Perry Warren from Alfred Bourguignon (according to Warren's records: Bourguignon label [on the vase]: Orvieto); purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren, December 1901