Wine cooler (psykter) depicting pentathletes
Phintias
about 520–515 B.C.
Place of ManufactureAthens, Attica, Greece
Medium/TechniqueCeramic, Red Figure
DimensionsHeight: 34.4 cm (13 9/16 in.); diameter: 26.9 cm (10 9/16 in.)
Credit LineHenry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession number01.8019
ClassificationsVessels
InscriptionsInscriptions: "Philon" (PHILON); "Etearchos" (ETEARXOS); "Epilykos" (EPILUK[OS]; "Ptoiodoros" (PTOIODOROS); "Sostratos" (SOSTRATOS) (twice); "Eukrates" (EKRATES); "Eudemos" (EUDEMOS); "Eoppoki" (EOPPOKI); "Kimon" (KIMON); "Phayllos" (PHAULO[S]); "Xenophon" (XSENO[PHON]); "Enioas" (ENIOAS)ProvenanceProbably between 1876 and 1885: excavated by Riccardo Mancini at Orvieto (according to Caskey-Beazley, part 2, p. 3; according to Hartwig, “Tod des Pentheus,” Jb. Arch. Inst. 7, 1892, p.157, this psykter was discovered at the necropolis in Orvieto along with another psykter, which by 1888 was likewise in the Bourguignon collection). By 1890: Alfred Bourguignon, Naples (W. Klein, “Die Griechischen Vasen,” Denkschriften der kais. Ak. der Wiss., 1890, p. 65, no. 4); sold by Bourguignon to Edward Perry Warren (b. 1860 –d . 1928), London; December 1, 1901: sold by Warren to the MFA.
