Title

Athenian black-figure lekythos depciting ball game, 6th-5th century BC. Artist: Edinburgh Painter.

Caption

Athenian black-figure lekythos depciting ball game, 6th-5th century BC (600 - 401 BC). Athenian black-figure lekythos (oil-jar); a ball game: a bearded man is on the point of throwing the ball towards a line-out of three youths, each mounted on a companion's shoulders; graffito: keleuson - call for it - inscribed in the field.//Oxford, Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology

Date

599th century BC

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology

Reference

HRM19E78_284

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

91,2Mb (8,2Mb) / 15,8in x 22,5in / 4727 x 6746 (300dpi)

Keywords

Italy Italian close up carrying people black male man men country youth ball body game guy beard color colour humour throwing Sicily Greece antique Athens location century image bearded studio shot concept ball game vase close-up pastime Homeware Carrying On Shoulders Athenian Ancient Greece Ancient Greek 5th century BC 6th century BC black figure lekythos TGN the body object Caltanissetta ceramic Gela grey background black colour Edinburgh Painter Painter Edinburgh Ashmolean Museum ceramic object