M0009556: Ancient Greek red-figure pottery decorated with athletes

Date:
09 August 1946
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/84/16
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M0009556: Ancient Greek red-figure pottery decorated with athletes. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced October 2020: Red figure cup, by the Tithonos painter

Description

Two photographs printed on one piece of paper. The first is of a section of an ancient Greek cup by Epictetus held by the Altes Museum, Berlin, featuring javelin thrower, discus thrower and boxer. The second photograph is of a section of an ancient Greek amphora held by the National Archaeological Museum of Naples, Italy, featuring a spear thrower. The photographs were originally published in Schroder, Bruno: Der Sport im Altertum, Berlin, 1927. The photograph was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1946 (accession number PHO 12644). Related images: M0009555, M0009557.

Publication/Creation

09 August 1946

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Notes

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2020.

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