1925.30.41: Skyphos (drinking cup): Running Youths

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1925.30.41

Title

Skyphos (drinking cup): Running Youths

Classification

Vessels

Work Type

vessel

Date

c. 460 BCE

Places

Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Attica

Period

Classical period, Early

Culture

Greek

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/292315

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Terracotta; reddish clay with black paint

Technique

Red-figure

Dimensions

actual: 13.2 x 16.4 cm (5 3/16 x 6 7/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

JCH purchased in Athens, 1896.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number

Beazley Archive Database #13322

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Joseph C. Hoppin

Accession Year

1925

Object Number

1925.30.41

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

Badly broken and repaired. Side A: Youth running to right, wearing a chlamys, kothurnoi and petasos, a stone in his right, and his left arm outstretched, threatening. Side B: Youth similarly clad (without the kothurnoi) running to right and looking back, his right extended and holding a stick in his left. Under each handle and extending into the field elaborate floral palmette. Outline of hair reserved. Inferior black glaze.

Publication History

• Joseph Clark Hoppin and Albert Gallatin, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, U.S.A.: volume 1, Hoppin and Gallatin Collections, Libraire Ancienne Edouard Champion (Paris, 1926)

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