The name of each figure is inscribed: the flute player, Smikythos; the diskos thrower, Antiphanes, and his trainer, Antimenes; the broad jumper, Dorotheos ("he is going to jump"); the javelin thrower, Batrrachos; Kleainethos, the judge crowning the boy fair Epainetos, and his trainer, Alketes. Two inscriptions refer to the vase itself: "drink me" and "I open my mouth wide."
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Title:Terracotta psykter (vase for cooling wine)
Artist:Attributed to Oltos
Period:Archaic
Date:ca. 520–510 BCE
Culture:Greek, Attic
Medium:Terracotta; red-figure
Dimensions:Overall: 13 5/8 x 11in. (34.6 x 28cm)
Classification:Vases
Credit Line:Rogers Fund, 1910
Accession Number:10.210.18
Inscription: Two inscriptions refer to the vase itself: "drink me" and "I open my mouth wide." Names inscribed: Smikythos, Antiphanes, Antimenes, Dorotheos with "he is going to jump," Battrachos, Kleainethos, Epainetos, Alketes.
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Richter, Gisela M. A. 1946. Attic Red-Figured Vases: A Survey. pp. 38, 49, figs. 3, 35, New Haven: Yale University Press.
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Richter, Gisela M. A. 1970. Perspective in Greek and Roman Art. p. 22, n. 1, fig. 77, New York and London: Phaidon Press.
Beazley, John D. 1971. Paralipomena: Additions to Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters and to Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters [2nd edition]. pp. 317, 326, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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von Bothmer, Dietrich. 1978. Antichnoe iskusstvo iz muzeia Metropoliten, Soedinennye Shtaty Ameriki: Katalog vystavki. no. 38, pl. 5, Moscow: Sovetskii Khudozhnik.
Shapiro, Harvey Alan. 1983. "Epilykos Kalos." Hesperia, 52(3): p. 309.
Raschke, Wendy J. 1985. "Aulos and Athlete: the function of the flute Player in Greek Athletics." Arete: The Journal of Sport and Literature, 2: pp. 183, 190, 199 n. 41, fig. 8.
Tiverios, Michalis A. 1989. Perikleia Panathenaia: A Krater of the Painter of Munich 2335. p. 119, Thessalonikē: Andromeda Oxford Limited.
Cook, Brian. 1998[1987]. Greek Inscriptions. p. 2, fig. 1, London: Trustees of the British Museum.
Triantafyllidis, Pavlos. 2011. "A Unique Glass Psykter from Lithovouni in Aetolia, Greece." Journal of Glass Studies, 53: p. 50 n. 14.
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