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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