[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.

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[Agora Object] P 2787: Red Figure Skyphos Fragment: Type A

Mended from two pieces; the inside glazed. Preserved is the figure of a youth (trainer?) from chin to waist, wrapped in an himation which leaves his right side free. His right arm outstretched; his left ... August-September 1932 ... Preserved is the figure of a youth (trainer?) from chin to waist, wrapped in an himation which leaves his right side free.

[Agora Object] Agora XXX, no. 719

Most of body, all of base, except for chip. Thin, black glaze on inside; splotched. Glaze abraded in places on outside. P.H. 0.14; diam. 0.144. H. A. Thompson, Hesperia 17, 1948, pl. 67:2; Choes and Anthesteria, ... Ca. 400 B.C ... At the left, a nude youth comes in holding halt then there is the trainer standing frontally in a decorated himation, his staff in his raised right hand.

[Agora Object] Agora XXX, no. 589

Five non-joining wall fragments, a with start of keel. Glaze much pitted on underside of bowl. P.H. a) 0.18; max. dim. a) 0.25, b) 0.174, c) 0.087, d) 0.107, f) 0.062; est. circumference at ground line ... Ca. 500 B.C ... In front of him is the right foot, with the heel raised very high, of an athlete to left; the end of a javelin overlapping the feet of the trainer belongs to this athlete. Behind the trainer are the buttocks, left leg, and part of right of an athlete to right and between the two: From what remains of this athlete, it is clear that his right leg was raised slightly above the ground; he is taller than the trainer, and he is probably a discus thrower, although the position of his legs is a bit unusual (see below). ... This is the figure of the trainer on fragment a.

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[Agora Object] P 27556: Panathenaic Amphora Fragments

Numerous fragments from body of vase, both joining and non-joining but none from base, mouth or handles. Of the athletes there remain the legs of three distance runners on joining fragments, one head much ... 380/79 B.C ... Of the athletes there remain the legs of three distance runners on joining fragments, one head much peeled, three hands and one arm, also the legs and feet of a trainer to right. Of Athena, facing left, the feet, part of waist and skirt, the spear arm and the lower part of the face.