Hoplite Race

Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 1278. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $6500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 500-450 BC. EL Stater (16.07 g). Hoplite, nude but for Corinthian helmet, holding shield, standing in semi-crouch right; to right, tunny downward / Quadripartite incuse square. Von Fritze I 119; SNG France 265 = de Luynes 2452; Boston MFA 1497; A. Milavic, “Hoplitodromos:The hoplite race in armor served as a vehicle to train for war” in The Celator 5.8 (August 1991), fig. 6 and front cover. Good VF.

The hoplite is about to begin the foot race in which the runners carried their military equipment.