Decoration: A: ATHLETES WRESTLING, TRAINER, YOUTH, ARYBALLOI AND SPONGES SUSPENDED B: YOUTHS AND DRAPED YOUTH I: ATHLETE, WITH DISKOS AND STICK, HALTERES
Last Recorded Collection: Stuttgart, Württembergisches Landesmuseum: 79.2
Publication Record: Buitron-Oliver, D., Douris, A Master-Painter of Athenian Red-Figure Vases (Mainz, 1995): PL.10, NO.15 (I, A, B) Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 393 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 393-394 Jahrbuch der staatlichen Kunstsammlungen in Baden-Württemberg: 17 (1980), 325, FIG.15 (I) Praestant Interna, Festschrift für Ulrich Hausmann zum 65. Geburtstag am 13. August 1982 (Tübingen, 1982): PLS.47-49.1-2 (I, A, B)
CAVI Lemma: RF cup. Douris. Python, potter (Buitron-Oliver). First quarter fifth. Very
early.
CAVI Subject: Int.: a discobolus; between his feet, halteres on the ground. A: a nude youth
(athlete); on his left, a sponge and aryballos; in the center, a draped youth
[trainer?]; at right, two naked youths (athletes) moving toward him and greeting
him. B: at the left, two wrestlers; on either side, a sponge and aryballos; in
the center, a young trainer; at right, a naked youth (athlete).
CAVI Inscriptions: Int.: starting to left of the right foot and going along the margin to the
height of the athlete's left shin: Δορις εγραφσεν : hο παις καλος. A:
Χαιρεστρατος [κα]λος{1}. hερμ, three times by the heads of the three athletes
(each horizontal from the open mouth): 1. near horizontal to right of the left
athlete's face. 2. near horizontal to left of the second athlete's face, retr.
3. similar. B: [Χαιρ]εστρατος καλος{2}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} where? {2} so B.-O.'s text.
CAVI Comments: Subjects and inscriptions are taken from Buitron. Honroth's descriptions
differ somewhat; they include parallels to athletes' invocations of Hermes.
