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cite as: https://uremuseum.org/record/29.11.2

Accession_Number

29.11.2

Shape

Lekythos

Shape_description

Cup mouth. The top of the rim slightly curving upwards. Cylindrical neck. Strap single handle connecting the beginning of the neck with the shoulder. Shoulder curves slightly down to straight body. Broad torus ring foot. Underside flat except conical center. Cf. Smith 2003, BSA 98, p.360, footnote 26, pl. 59 a-b (see also 'Comments').

Material

Terracotta

Fabric

Attic

Fabric_description

Munsell_color

7.5YR 7/6

Decoration

Main zone of body cream ground. Mouth black inside and out, lip reserved. Handle black underneath reserved. Shoulder is decorated with two rows of rays or buds (the lower row is slanted to the right). The body is decorated with a symposium scene: a man reclines and a seated woman plays the lyre, framed by two seated women and branches. Above the panel are two irregular rows of dots. Below the main scene are two uneven black bands, then the bottom of the body and top of the foot are black. Side and base of foot reserved.

Inscriptions

Condition

Intact. Paint slightly worn in places but overall in very good condition. Bad quality of gloss fired brownish. Gloss applied thinly on the exterior of the mouth and the handle.

Technique/Style

Black figure

Provenance

Period

Early Classical

Date

475-450

Dating_details

Artist

Haimon Group: Haimon Painter

Attribution

Ure attriutes this to the 'Manner of the Haimon Painter'

Image

2003.12.0075.jpg	Side view of an Attic black-figure lekythos, showing the body decorated with symposium scene.
2003.12.0078.jpg	Side view of an Attic black-figure lekythos, showing a symposium scene: man reclining, woman seated playing lyre behind couch, woman seated, branches.
2003.97.0742.jpg	Front view of an Attic black-figure lekythos, showing a symposium scene.
2003.97.0743.jpg	Back view of an Attic black-figure lekythos, showing the handle.
2003.97.0744.jpg	Top view of an Attic black-figure lekythos, showing the reserved lip and painted interior.
2003.97.0745.jpg	Bottom view of an Attic black-figure lekythos, showing the reserved base with conical centre.
2019.99.0050.jpg	Front view of an Attic black-figure lekythos, showing a symposium scene.
2019.99.0051.jpg	Side view of an Attic black-figure lekythos, showing a symposium scene.
2019.99.0052.jpg	Back view of an Attic black-figure lekythos, showing the handle.
2019.99.0053.jpg	Side view of an Attic black-figure lekythos, showing a symposium scene.
2019.99.0054.jpg	Oblique view, from slightly above of an Attic black-figure lekythos, showing a symposium scene.
2019.99.0055.jpg	Oblique view, from slightly above of an Attic black-figure lekythos, showing a symposium scene.