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Black-Figure Oinochoe (Wine Jug): Boxers

Black-Figure Oinochoe (Wine Jug): Boxers

c. 550–540 BCE

attributed to Class of London B 524

Greek, Attic
ceramic
Overall: 22.3 cm (8 3/4 in.)
Gift of Amadio Canessa 1916.1062
Location: 102B Greek

Did You Know?

An ancient boxing match (or pyx) continued until one boxer could not (or would not) continue.

Description

Two stout young boxers, unbearded, face off on this small wine jug. Curiously, while one boxer has both hands wrapped for fighting (in leather straps known as himantes), the other has left one hand bare, holding it up to fend off punches. The seated figure at left, with one hand raised, may be a judge. The standing figure at right, whose white hair and beard are now mostly gone, is likely a spectator.
  • ?-1916
    Amadio Canessa, New York, NY, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    1916-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Beazley Archive. n.d. Beazley Archive Pottery Database. Oxford: Beazley Archive. BAPD 351293 www.beazley.ox.ac.uk
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    Boulter, C. G., Jenifer Neils, and Gisela Walberg. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1971. p. 11, Plate 17,I-2 www.beazley.ox.ac.uk
    Poliakoff, Michael. Combat Sports in the Ancient World: Competition, Violence, and Culture. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987. p. 72
    Carpenter, Thomas H., J. D. Beazley, Thomas Mannack, Melanie Mendonça, and Lucilla Burn. Beazley Addenda: Additional References to ABV, ARV² & Paralipomena. Oxford: Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 1989. p. 109
    Stansbury-O'Donnell, Mark. Vase Painting, Gender, and Social Identity in Archaic Athens. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2006. p. 19, fig. 8
    Neils, Jenifer. Goddess and Polis: The Panathenaic Festival in Ancient Athens. Hanover, N.H.; Princeton, N.J.: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College; Princeton University Press, 1992. Reproduced: p 168, cat. 35
  • Inaugural Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (co-organizer) (June 6-September 20, 1916).
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