COLLECTION HIGHLIGHTS | Ashmolean Museum

Ancient Greek silver coin depicting two wrestlers

430–350 BCE. HCR6778

Runners on an attic black-figure pottery Panathenaic amphora

540–530 BCE. AN1965.117

Plaster cast of a discus thrower (the Discobolos of Myron)

1871–1930 (2nd century AD Roman copy of lost Greek original of 460–450 BCE). CG.C.25

Plaster cast of a victory stele, from Sounion, Greece

1901–1930 (original statue c. 470 BCE). CG.D.41

Attic black-figure pottery depicting wrestlers and their trainer

510–500 BCE. AN1965.97

Ancient Greek silver coin with a Discobolos (discus thrower)

c. 450 BCE. HCR6773

Attic red-figure pottery stemless cup depicting a javelin thrower

c. 420 BCE. AN1879.167

Plaster cast of relief showing two naked wrestlers

From the front side of the 'ball-player base' from Athens, c. 510 BCE. CG.D.7.b

Attic red-figure pottery krater depicting a discus thrower

c. 500 BCE. AN1896–1908.G.297

Attic red-figure pottery cup depicting wrestlers

440–430 BCE. AN1890.35.a

Bronze strigil, used by athletes to scrape the skin clean

500–400 BCE, Greece. AN1948.75

Attic red-figure pottery amphora depicting a discus thrower with his trainer

500–475 BCE. AN1891.689

Plaster cast of the Delphi Charioteer

1851–1900 (original statue 478–470 BCE). CG.B.70

Plaster cast of an athlete (the Diadoumenos of Polykleitos)

1851–1900 (original statue 100 BCE). CG.C.36

Three athletes on an attic black-figure pottery amphora

500–490 BCE, Greece. AN1884.708

Cast of a statuette of a discus thrower

1901–1930 (original statue 480–460 BCE). CG.F.70

The Forest Fire (detail) by Piero di Cosimo

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