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Accession_Number

46.9.1

Shape

Lekythos

Shape_description

'Little lion' shape. Shallow, flaring mouth; thin neck from the top of which a single strap thin handle curves down to the flat shoulder; slight ridge between neck and shoulder; body tapers down to disk foot; base flat with central concave circle. Cf. Agora 12 part 2, no. 1115, pl. 38

Material

Terracotta

Fabric

Attic

Fabric_description

Munsell_color

5YR 7/6

Decoration

Mouth coloured black inside, outside, neck red. Handle black on outside and reserved underneath. On shoulder, black rays below fine ridge at base of neck, then lotus flowers - white outer petals alternating with black buds. Body has a silvery black glaze with two red lines at top, another just under the figure scene and another just in the junction with the base. In added white, bearded charioteer with two galloping horses. They are in profile to the left. He is holding the reigns of the horses. Naked with fillet on hair and belt, both shown incised. Row of white dots above the scene. Details of man's body and horses' incised. Disk foot has reserved edge, base is reserved.

Inscriptions

Condition

Intact. Gloss has lustre and white design is undamaged. Small chips on body and top of the rim. Black gloss flaked off handle.

Technique/Style

Black figure

Provenance

Bought from Mikas, Paris

Period

High Archaic / Late Archaic

Date

525-500

Dating_details

Artist

Attribution

Image

2003.92.0143.jpg	Bottom view of a black-figure Attic lekythos, showing the reserved base with central concave circle.
2003.92.0144.jpg	Top view of a black-figure Attic lekythos, showing the black rim, interior and handle, and the ray decoration on the shoulder.
2003.92.0145.jpg	Oblique view, from slightly above, of a black-figure Attic lekythos, showing shoulder decoration of rays and lotus buds and main body decoration of bearded charioteer.
2003.92.0146.jpg	Left side view of a black-figure Attic lekythos, showing the reserved neck and side of handle, and the fronts of the charioteers' horses.
2003.92.0147.jpg	Back view of a black-figure Attic lekythos, showing black handle and back of body.
2003.92.0148.jpg	Right side view of a black-figure Attic lekythos, showing reserved neck and side of handle, and black side of body.
2003.92.0149.jpg	Front view of a black-figure Attic lekythos, showing the main decoration of a bearded charioteer with white dots in the field.
2003.92.0150.jpg	Front view of a black-figure Attic lekythos, showing the main decoration of a bearded charioteer with white dots in the field.
2003.97.0471.jpg	Front view of a black-figure Attic lekythos, showing the main decoration of a bearded charioteer with white dots in the field.
2010.98.0151.jpg	Side view of an Attic, black-figure lekythos.
2010.98.0152.jpg	Side view of an Attic, black-figure lekythos.
2010.98.0153.jpg	Close-up detail of an Attic, black-figure lekythos, depicting a bearded charioteer.
2010.98.0154.jpg	Oblique bottom view of an Attic, black-figure lekythos, depicting a bearded charioteer.
2010.98.0155.jpg	Top view of an Attic, black-figure lekythos, showing pattern on the rim.