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cite as: https://uremuseum.org/record/26.12.19

Accession_Number

26.12.19

Shape

Lekythos

Shape_description

Single curved handle. Foot in two degrees, top; base has central concave section.

Material

Terracotta

Fabric

Attic

Fabric_description

Munsell_color

5YR 6/4

Decoration

Handle black on outside and reserved underneath. Shoulder: rays and long, thin lotus buds; black band at join with body. Top of bod: two rows black dots bordered by smaller white dots. Body: ram in cauldron set on tripod over a fire, flanked by two females holding wreaths on either side. Below is a broad black band with a thin band between reserved bands either side. Lower step of foot black; base reserved. This is probably the scene in which Medea tricked the daughters of Peleus: she killed an old ram, cut up its body and threw it in a boiling cauldron. Medea, a sorceress, restored the ram's life and made it young. Whereupon Pelias' daughters kill Pelias and toss his body into the cauldron. Medea did not, however, restore Pelias' life and was driven out of Iolcus.

Inscriptions

Condition

Mouth and upper part of neck missing. Foot badly damaged making pot stand unevenly. Chips to shoulder. Colours on main design are worn and the black stem ahs faded to red.

Technique/Style

Black figure; added white

Provenance

Period

Classical

Date

470

Dating_details

Artist

Emporion Painter

Attribution

Ure (CVA) attributes this vase to the 'Manner of the Emporion Painter'

Image

2003.12.0008.jpg	Two Attic black-figure lekythoi, 45.6.17 (left) and 26.12.19 (right).
2003.12.0082.jpg	Right side view of an Attic black-figure lekythos, showing two women, probably the daughters of Pelias, holding garlands, as they watch the boiling of Medea's ram.
2003.12.0084.jpg	3/4-view of the left side of an Attic black-figure lekythos, showing daughters of Pelias holding garlands. Cauldron with tripod (and ram) at right.
2003.97.0416.jpg	Left side view of an Attic black-figure lekythos, showing two women, probably the daughters of Pelias, holding garlands, as they watch the boiling of Medea's ram.
2003.97.0417.jpg	Top view of an Attic black-figure lekythos, showing rays on shoulder.
2003.97.0418.jpg	Bottom view of an Attic black-figure lekythos, showing the reserved base and some of the body.