cite as: https://uremuseum.org/record/29.11.1
| Accession_Number | 29.11.1 | ||||||||||
| Shape | Lekythos | ||||||||||
| Shape_description | Flared mouth | ||||||||||
| Material | Terracotta | ||||||||||
| Fabric | Attic | ||||||||||
| Fabric_description | |||||||||||
| Munsell_color | 7.5YR 6/4 | ||||||||||
| Decoration | Mouth black inside and out with a reserved rim. Neck and underside of single curved handle are reserved. Shoulder has bars at base of neck with a ring of lotus buds on edge - circular mistake between rows. Thin black band around edge of shoulder. Body design has two men each leading a horse to right. Both wear cloaks, first helmet, second petasos. Red for beards, manes, tails and peytrels. White on helmet and design on horses, but badly faded. Black band followed by reserved band, then black stem. Disk foot is black on top but reserved on the edge with a flat, reserved base with a central circular concave section. | ||||||||||
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| Condition | Clay has chipped away at the side at the base of design, leaving a rough surface and a section of exposed clay. Paint is slighlty chipped around the mouth rim and the base. | ||||||||||
| Technique/Style | Black figure | ||||||||||
| Provenance | |||||||||||
| Period | Late Archaic | ||||||||||
| Date | 500 | ||||||||||
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| Artist | Class of Athens 581 | ||||||||||
| Attribution | Beazley: ABV 499.16 | ||||||||||
| Image |
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| Bibliography | CVA Reading 1, pl. 12.5; ABV 499.16; Add2 124 | ||||||||||
| Archive_Ref | reference 1 reference 2 | ||||||||||
| Beazley_DB | 305343 | ||||||||||
| Height | 16.5 | ||||||||||
| Diameters | Mouth 4.4; body 6.7; base 5.2 | ||||||||||
| Handle_height | 3.8 | ||||||||||
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| Location | Warfare | ||||||||||
| Edited_by | Denise; Karen; Kinsey | ||||||||||
| Date_edited | 28.08.2002; 05.04.2004; 06.01.2006 |
