Lekythos

73-25-2

Location: On Display in the Greece Gallery

From: Greece | Attica | Athens

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

Object Number 73-25-2
Current Location Greece Gallery - On Display
Culture Attic
Provenience Greece | Attica | Athens
Manufacture Location Athens
Date Made 499-400 BCE
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Technique White Ground
Iconography Woman | Phiale | Tomb
Description

Foot composed of two disks, the upper smaller than the lower; glaze around upper part of lower and on top surface of upper. Lower wall fully glazed. Rest of wall covered with white ground on which is painted in dilute glaze only a woman advancing to right with a phiale outstretched in each hand toward a behive shaped tomb. Above, a border of key pattern. Shoulder, on clay ground. two rows of glaze strokes radiating from base of neck, inner short, outer long. Neck unglazed. Lip and outer surface of handle glazed. Complete but mended.

Height 23.1 cm
Outside Diameter 7.6 cm
Credit Line Gift of Robert H. Bates, 1973
Other Number L-224-3 - Old Loan Number

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