M0009556: Ancient Greek red-figure pottery decorated with athletes

Previous title, replaced October 2020: Red figure cup, by the Tithonos painter

Two photographs printed on one piece of paper. The first is of a section of an ancient Greek cup by Epictetus held by the Altes Museum, Berlin, featuring javelin thrower, discus thrower and boxer. The second photograph is of a section of an ancient Greek amphora held by the National Archaeological Museum of Naples, Italy, featuring a spear thrower. The photographs were originally published in Schroder, Bruno: Der Sport im Altertum, Berlin, 1927. The photograph was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1946 (accession number PHO 12644). Related images: M0009555, M0009557.

09 August 1946

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2020.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.