Lekythos
73-25-1
Location: On Display in the Greece Gallery
From: Mediterranean
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 73-25-1 |
| Current Location | Greece Gallery - On Display |
| Culture | Attic |
| Provenience | Mediterranean |
| Manufacture Location | Athens |
| Period | Classical Greek Period |
| Date Made | 499-400 BCE |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Technique | White Ground |
| Iconography | Woman | Wool Basket | Klismos | Doric Column | Spinning |
| Description | Lekythos. Foot, except for top surface, reserved. Lower wall also fully glazed. Rest of wall covered with white ground. Left to right: wool basket; woman seated on a klismos in profile facing right, arms extended in front of her, one above the other, as if spinning; Doric column. Border above: meander and cross. Shoulder, on clay ground: palmettes. Neck, lip, and outer surface of handle glazed. Parts of white ground area of wall and of shoulder are repainted. |
| Height | 21.8 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 7.6 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of Robert H. Bates, 1973 |
| Other Number | L-224-2 - Old Loan Number |
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