cite as: https://uremuseum.org/record/26.8.3
| Accession_Number | 26.8.3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Shape | Lekythos | ||||||||||||||||||
| Shape_description | Chimney mouth. Base has central concave circle. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Material | Terracotta | ||||||||||||||||||
| Fabric | Attic | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Munsell_color | 7.5YR 8/4 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Decoration | Mouth black inside and out with a reserved rim. Shoulder bars at base of neck, lower buds which have almost degenerated into rays. At top of body is a debased checker board in three rows. Main design is of Athena attacking a giant who is beaten to his knees, between trees. Below are reserved bands and rest of body is black. Top of foot is black as is lower step. Base has traces of black paint. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Condition | Mouth rejoined. One side of design has worn worse than the other. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Technique/Style | Black figure | ||||||||||||||||||
| Provenance | |||||||||||||||||||
| Period | Early Classical | ||||||||||||||||||
| Date | 480-470 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Artist | Emporion Painter; Haimon Painter | ||||||||||||||||||
| Attribution | Katerina Volioti attributes this to the Emporion Painter, on the basis of the extensive use of black and absence of white, as well as the many black dots. Beazley attributed itto the 'Manner of the Haimon Painter': ABV 546.225 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Image |
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| Comparanda | Cf. Brussels A 2130 (Brussels CVA vii pl. 21.28); L. Parlama and N.C. Stampolidis, eds., The City beneath the City. Antiquities from the Metropolitan Railway Excavations (Athens 2000) 176 no. 334 (ill.). | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bibliography | CVA Reading 1, pl. 13.3; ABV 546.225; LIMC s.v. Gigantes 2620 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Archive_Ref | reference 1 reference 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Beazley_DB | 331323 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 14.9 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Diameters | Mouth 2.6; body 4.5; base 3.6 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Handle_height | 2.9 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Location | Greece | ||||||||||||||||||
| Edited_by | Denise; Karen; Kinsey; Amy | ||||||||||||||||||
| Date_edited | 28.08.2002; 05.04.2004; 10.01.2006; 25.06.2013 |
