Plate with Two Athletes by Paseas in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, July 2011

Plate depicting athletes

Greek, Archaic Period, about 525–520 B.C.

Paseas

Place of Manufacture: Athens, Attica, Greece

Dimensions: Diameter: 19 cm (7 1/2 in.)

Medium or Technique: Ceramic, Red Figure

Classification: Vessels

Catalogue Raisonné: Caskey-Beazley, Attic Vase Paintings (MFA), no. 002.

Accession Number: 03.785

Two nude young athletes conversing, one carrying a discus. Incised inscriptions: "Xenophon" (XSENOPHON); "Dorotheos" (DOROTHEOS).

Inscription: "Xenophon" (XSENOPHON) and "Dorotheos" (DOROTHEOS)

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