Attic Red-figure skyphos; some repainting; A, boy and erast, the former with a lyre, the latter holding a strigil and leaning on a stick; B, palaistra: nude youth holding mantle over outstretched arms; erast holding youth’s strigil in right hand, staff in 1.; to left of youth, goal pillar; base strip of maeander and saltire squares; palmette complexes at handles. Height: 19 cm, Width/breadth: 34 cm, Diameter: 23.5 cm
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Chiusi, Tuscany, Central Italy
Verbatim coll. place:
Greece, Athens, attr. From Chiusi.
Culture or time period:
Etruscan
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Materials:
Ceramic (material)
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Skyphoi
Accession date:
1907
Department:
Classical Mediterranean
Dimensions:
height 19 centimeters, diameter 23.5 centimeters, and width 34 centimeters
Comment:
Formerly in the Coleman Collection. Attributed to the Lewis Painter by Beazley; c/ 450. B.C.
Loans:
S1939-1940 #2: California Palace of the Legion of Honor (November 9, 1939–October 22, 1940), S1962-1963 #44: M. H. de Young Memorial Museum (March 15, 1963–April 2, 1963), S1965-1966 #86a: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (May 19, 1966–September 6, 1966), S1969-1970 #53: University of California, Riverside (November 13, 1969–December 1, 1969), S1970-1971 #21: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (October 12, 1970–January 20, 1971), S1973-1974 #19: Department of Classics (UC Berkeley) (October 8, 1973–unknown), S1981-1982 #26: M. H. de Young Memorial Museum (December 18, 1981–September 29, 1982), S1982-1983 #36: Saint Mary’s College of California (1983–April 29, 1983), S1982-1983 #3: Crocker Art Museum (October 20, 1982–March 28, 1983), S1986-1987 #22: M. H. de Young Memorial Museum (February 17, 1987–August 21, 1987), S1996-1997 #5c: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (November 4, 1996–April 17, 1997), and S2015-2016 #3: Bancroft Library (UC Berkeley) (May 5, 2016–August 2, 2016)