Athletes XXVI: Palestra Scene
Plate with a rounded edge bearing the signature of the painter Epiktetos (G 7).
Two ephebes, the winner and his “pedotribe” (trainer), are portrayed inside a “palestra”. On the left, the winner, portrayed as naked ephebe holding two palms of red leaves. Red strips are attached to his right arm. A little older ephebe (nascent beard at the temple), wearing a mantle draped over the left shoulder, is standing in front of him. Wreaths of red leaves embellish their hair. Symmetrically on either side of the figures, at left, curving upward, at right curving downward, the signature of the artist: Επικτετος ^ εγρασφεν (for εγραφσεν)
Small horizontal line under the feet of the characters, indicating the ground.
CAV / CAVI @ www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/E33D9389-2612-4CB2-AB71-2FF37...
Attic red-figured plate
H. 2 cm; D. 20,5 cm.
Attributed to Epiktetos by signature
520 – 510 BC
From Vulci
Paris, Musée du Louvre, Collezione Canino - Inv. No. G 7
Athletes XXVI: Palestra Scene
Plate with a rounded edge bearing the signature of the painter Epiktetos (G 7).
Two ephebes, the winner and his “pedotribe” (trainer), are portrayed inside a “palestra”. On the left, the winner, portrayed as naked ephebe holding two palms of red leaves. Red strips are attached to his right arm. A little older ephebe (nascent beard at the temple), wearing a mantle draped over the left shoulder, is standing in front of him. Wreaths of red leaves embellish their hair. Symmetrically on either side of the figures, at left, curving upward, at right curving downward, the signature of the artist: Επικτετος ^ εγρασφεν (for εγραφσεν)
Small horizontal line under the feet of the characters, indicating the ground.
CAV / CAVI @ www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/E33D9389-2612-4CB2-AB71-2FF37...
Attic red-figured plate
H. 2 cm; D. 20,5 cm.
Attributed to Epiktetos by signature
520 – 510 BC
From Vulci
Paris, Musée du Louvre, Collezione Canino - Inv. No. G 7