Ure Museum | Database

cite as: https://uremuseum.org/record/29.11.3

Accession_Number

29.11.3

Shape

Lekythos

Shape_description

The mouth is chimney-like, the handle banded, the body is conical and the foot is disk-shaped.

Material

Terracotta

Fabric

Attic

Fabric_description

Munsell_color

GLEY1 6/1

Decoration

The vessel is grey (burnt), apart from the rim, the back of the handle, the lower body and upper foot surface, which are black. There is added white on the lower neck, shoulder and upper body surface. There is also a row of black dots and pointed tongues on the shoulder, as well as the motif two rows of black dots between dividing lines (three), interrupted at the back side of the vessel. The scene depicted is that of a charioteer (woman) ridding a chariot of four horses (quadriga). There is a woman at the horses' tails, another standing on the far side of the horses and another seated at the right of the scene. Added red has been used for the faces of the women and for the ornament of the horses' harness. Below the scene, there is a broad, black band between carelessly executed lines and the rest of the vessel is black, apart from the side surface of the foot and the resting surface, which are reserved.

Inscriptions

Condition

The neck and handle have been repaired and rejoined to the body. There is a scratch on the upper body surface and two tiny bits that been chipped off. The vessel looks burnt (apparently from a burnt grave).

Technique/Style

Black figure

Provenance

Period

Early Classical

Date

475-450

Dating_details

Artist

Haimon Group: Haimon Painter

Attribution

Ure (CVA) attributes this to the 'Manner of the Haimon Painter'

Image

2003.13.0008.jpg	Three Attic black-figure lekythoi (from left to right: 26.8.3, 34.8.7, and 29.11.3)
2004.07.0001.jpg	Front view of an Attic lekythos, showing a woman in a chariot (right side). The lekythos on the left refers to REDMG:1951.156.1
2004.07.0097.jpg	Front view of an Attic lekythos, showing a woman in a chariot.
2004.07.0099.jpg	3/4 view of an Attic lekythos, showing a woman in a chariot.
2019.99.0045.jpg	Front view of an Attic lekythos, showing a woman in a chariot.
2019.99.0046.jpg	Side view of an Attic lekythos, showing a woman in a chariot.
2019.99.0047.jpg	Back view of an Attic black-figure lekythos, showing the handle.
2019.99.0048.jpg	Side view of an Attic black-figure lekythos.
2019.99.0049.jpg	Front view of an Attic lekythos, showing a woman in a chariot (left side). The lekythos on the right refers to 29.11.2
2019.99.0056.jpg	Oblique view from slightly above of an Attic lekythos, showing a woman in a chariot.