Black-Figure Oinochoe (Wine Jug): Boxers
attributed to Class of London B 524
c. 550–540 BCE
- Medium
- ceramic
- Classification
- Ceramic
- Dimensions
- Overall: 22.3 cm (8 3/4 in.)
- Culture
- Greek, Attic
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Greek and Roman Art
- Credit line
- Gift of Amadio Canessa
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
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 himantes), 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.
