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Accession_Number 25.8.6
Shape Lekythos
Shape_description Handle is small and joined from shoulder to neck. Shallow cup mouth.
Material Terracotta
Fabric Perhaps Euboean
Fabric_description
Munsell_color 7.5YR 7/4
Decoration Lip inside and outside black. Shoulder: five lotus buds separated by spots, body- probably a runner facing left between youthfull onlookers; the figures in the center and on the left completely repainted. Below, thick black band. Rim of foot missing, but remainder is reserved.
Inscriptions
Condition Incomplete, neck and mouth glued back on, most of foot still missing. Decoration glaze has become very worn. The rim of the mouth is chipped, and there is a large hole in one side of the shoulder. Most of the decoration on the body is missing, the band below it, very faded. Foot barely remains.
Technique/Style Black figure
Provenance
Period Late Archaic
Date 525-500
Dating_details
Artist Fat Runner Group
Attribution Beazley: ABV 698.11bis; but see A.D. Ure ('Euboean')
Image

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Left side view of a Euboean black-figure lekythos.

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Right side view of a Euboean black-figure lekythos.

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Top view of a Euboean black-figure lekythos, showing the mouth and shoulder design.

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Oblique view, from below, of a Euboean black-figure lekythos, showing the base and part of the figure on the body.

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Side view of a Euboean black-figure lekythos.

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Profile view of the left side of a perhaps Euboean lekythos, showing a runner approaching a draped man.

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Oblique top view of a perhaps Euboean black-figure lekythos, showing a runner between two draped men.

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Detail of the front of a perhaps Euboean black-figure lekythos, showing a runner approaching a draped man.

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Detail of the front of a perhaps Euboean black-figure lekythos, showing a runner between two draped men.

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Detail of the right side of a perhaps Euboean black-figure lekythos, showing a runner and a draped man.

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Frontal view of a perhaps Euboean black-figure lekythos, showing a runner and a draped man.

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Right side view of a perhaps Euboean black-figure lekythos, showing the shape of the handle.

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View of the back of a perhaps Euboean black-figure lekythos, showing the front of the handle.

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Top view of a perhaps Euboean black-figure lekythos, showing the mouth and shoulder design.

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Oblique view, from below, of a perhaps Euboean black-figure lekythos, showing the base and part of the figures on the body.

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Top view of a perhaps Euboean black-figure lekythos, showing the mouth and shoulder design.
Comparanda
Bibliography CVA Reading 1, pl. 11.10; ABV 698.11bis
Archive_Ref reference 1
reference 2
Beazley_DB 306665
Height 13.1
Diameters Mouth 3.1; body 7.8
Handle_height 3.7
Other_dims.
Location Education
Edited_by Georgina; Karen; Joana Varela
Date_edited 03.09.2002; 05.04.2004; 05.04.2017
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