[Agora Object] Agora XXX, no. 1237

Wall fragment. Some of the glaze drawing flaked. Max. dim. 0.055. E. Vanderpool, Hesperia 15, 1946, p. 288, cat. no. 58, pl. 34. Youthful trainer (neck to hips, outstretched right arm) standing to left, ... Ca. 490-480 B.C ... Youthful trainer (neck to hips, outstretched right arm) standing to left, dressed in a himation. ... Manner of the Antiphon Painter (ARV2 one 237, 81); may be by the painter himself (ARV2 347, 115). The trainer on 1237 may have looked very much like the one who watches a pair of youthful wrestlers on side B of Oxford 1914.729 + Florence 9 B 38 (ARV2 340, 73; Paralip. 361, 73; Addenda 219).

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[Agora Object] P 1149: Black Figure Lekythos

Depicts athletes with trainer. Mended from many fragments; bottom missing and two small pieces from side. Surface much worn on right side of picture. On either side of the central seated figure a nude ... June 1932 ... Depicts athletes with trainer. Mended from many fragments; bottom missing and two small pieces from side.

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[Agora Object] P 24538: Black Figure Lekythos: Inscribed

Handle, fragments from shoulder and wall missing. General type as P 24533 (ΣΑ 2743). Red line around join of neck. Shoulder: tongues and palmettes with dots (three and two), lotus buds next handle. Above ... May-June 1954 ... Scene: diskobolos to right, trainer right (upper part missing), flutist right (upper part missing), javelin thrower left (most of upper part missing), diskobolos right, paidotribes.

[Agora Object] Agora XXX, no. 401

Most of body on one side, with start of one handle, mended and strengthened with plaster. P.H. 0.125; max. dim. 0.168. A, youths (illustrated). At the left, a youth (top of head, left hand, legs missing) ... Late 5th century B.C ... At the right of it, a trainer (right arm, body from the waist down) wearing a himation, his right hand pointing toward the turning post. ... The subject probably represents a torch race for athletes, characterized by the presence of a trainer and turning post, rather than the torch race for cult purposes.