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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 <em>himantes</em>), 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.
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Document identity
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95292
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Black-Figure Oinochoe (Wine Jug): Boxers
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95292
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Black-Figure Oinochoe (Wine Jug): Boxers
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 <em>himantes</em>), 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.
date
c. 550–540 BCE
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CC0
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CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q60757126
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376434
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Ceramic
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Overall: 22.3 cm (8 3/4 in.)
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Greek, Attic
accession
1916.1062
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Black-Figure Oinochoe (Wine Jug): Boxers, c. 550–540 BCE. Attributed to Class of London B 524. Ceramic; overall: 22.3 cm (8 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Amadio Canessa, 1916.1062
collection
GR - Greek
formerAccessionNumbers
632.1916
didYouKnow
An ancient boxing match (or <em>pyx</em>) continued until one boxer could not (or would not) continue.
citations
citation
Beazley Archive. n.d. <em>Beazley Archive Pottery Database</em>. Oxford: Beazley Archive.
page_number
BAPD 351293
citation
Pevnick, Seth. "Ancient Artworks Echo the Origins of the Olympic Games," <em>Medium </em>(July 2021).
citation
"Accessions." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 4, no. 2 (1917): 26-37.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 26
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Beazley, J. D., J. D. Beazley, and J. D. Beazley. <em>Paralipomena: Additions to Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters and to Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters </em>(Second Edition). Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971.
page_number
p. 179, no. 6
citation
Boulter, C. G., Jenifer Neils, and Gisela Walberg. <em>Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. </em>Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1971.
page_number
p. 11, Plate 17,I-2
citation
Poliakoff, Michael.<em> Combat Sports in the Ancient World: Competition, Violence, and Culture</em>. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987.
page_number
p. 72
citation
Carpenter, Thomas H., J. D. Beazley, Thomas Mannack, Melanie Mendonça, and Lucilla Burn. <em>Beazley Addenda: Additional References to ABV, ARV² & Paralipomena.</em> Oxford: Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 1989.
page_number
p. 109
citation
Stansbury-O'Donnell, Mark. <em>Vase Painting, Gender, and Social Identity in Archaic Athens. </em>New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
page_number
p. 19, fig. 8
citation
Neils, Jenifer. <em>Goddess and Polis: The Panathenaic Festival in Ancient Athen</em>s. Hanover, N.H.; Princeton, N.J.: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College; Princeton University Press, 1992.
page_number
Reproduced: p 168, cat. 35
creditline
Gift of Amadio Canessa
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2026-05-29 05:06:21.970000
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95292
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Greek and Roman Art
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GR - Greek
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ceramic
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gender unknown
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