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Accession_Number

29.5.5

Shape

Lekanis

Shape_description

Handles move straight out horizontal to the body and both have small horns either side.

Material

Terracotta

Fabric

Boeotian

Fabric_description

Munsell_color

7.5YR 7/4

Decoration

Outside, thirteen palmettes separated by dot rosettes above and single large dots below; coarse incised line across heart of each. In handle zone zigzags. Inside and outside foot-ring and base within foot-ring black. Top of rim black. Inside black with reserved band, then black band, than reserved circle with image of Sphinx inside it.

Inscriptions

Condition

Complete but not intact it has been pieced back together. On the inside, there are small scratches on the surface and patches where the glaze has faded to red or even its reserved colour. The glaze has also faded on the handles, and the edge of the rim is chipped. There is evidence of a greyish/white deposit on the inside of the rim. On the outside, the decoration is much more worn and faded, and the surface has small chips and flakes. The resting surface of the foot is chipped and in the centre of the foot has been scratched the letters T and I.

Technique/Style

Black figure

Provenance

Northern Boeotia (?), provenience unknown.

Period

Date

5 c.

Dating_details

Artist

Attribution

Image

2003.19.0004.jpg	Inscribed sphinx from the interior of a Boeotian Floral-ware lekane.
2003.19.0005.jpg	Inverted lekane. Palmettes decorating.
2004.06.0001.jpg	Exterior view of a Boeotian floral ware lekanis with ribbon handles, decorated with a palmette and rosette frieze.
2004.06.0012.jpg	Interior view of a Boeotian lekanis with ribbon handles, showing a sphinx, facing right, in the tondo.
2004.34.0049.jpg