Transcript PENTATHLON DISCUS JUMP JAVELIN

PENTATHLON
DISCUS
JUMP
JAVELIN
RUNNING
WRESTLING
The Modern
Pentathlon
Shooting
Fencing
Swimming
Riding
Cross-country running
Discos
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Discus
Greek (Southern Italy)
c. 500 B.C.
Bronze
Diam: 2,3 cm
AS Inv. No. VI 2889
VIENNA
Philadelphia MS403: Side B: view from center
The University Museum, University of Pennsylvania
Boston 01.8020
Tondo: discus thrower
Photograph courtesy of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
AKON (JAVELIN)
Boston 98.876
Side A: athletes
From Caskey & Beazley, plate XXXVII.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Harvard 1977.216.2244
Side B: youth with
javelin, from the waist up
Harvard University Art
Museums
HALMA
(JUMP)
HALTERES
a)
Halteres from Isthmia
Akmatidas the Laekedaimonian made this votive
offering for his victory. He won the pentathlon
without dust (akoniti).
Philadelphia MS2444
Side A: diskos bag and halteres above wrestlers
University of Pennsylvania Museum of
Archaeology and Anthropology