cite as: https://uremuseum.org/record/33.4.3
| Accession_Number | 33.4.3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Shape | Lekythos | ||||||||||||||||||
| Shape_description | The mouth is tall and conical, the back of the handle is inflated and the foot is disk-shaped. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Material | Terracotta | ||||||||||||||||||
| Fabric | Attic | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Munsell_color | 5YR 7/4 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Decoration | The mouth, neck, and handle are black, with some reddish patches. There are two reddish brown lines above the shoulder carination and two below it. The body scene depicts a naked youth in profile to the right, offering a bird (duck?) to Charon (the ferryman who conducts souls to Hades). The latter, standing on his half-moon shaped boat, wearing reddish-brown clothing and a dotted ovaloid headdress, is accepting the offer. Below, there is a reddish brown line on a reserved (but glazed) area. The rest of the vessel is black, with the exception of a red line on the upper part of the foot and its reserved (but glazed) vertical element. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Condition | There are some bits that have been pitted off and some spots that have been chipped off, especially from the rim (exterior and interior), the neck and the handle. There are also some scratches on the white colour area, whereas the foot has been repaired and rejoined to the body. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Technique/Style | Red figure; white ground | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Period | High Classical | ||||||||||||||||||
| Date | 425-400 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Bibliography | CVA Reading 1,23 pl.(540) 13.7; J.H. Oakley, Picturing Death in Classical Athens. The Evidence of the White Lekythoi (Cambridge 2004) 112 list 11, no. 79 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Archive_Ref | reference 1 reference 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Beazley_DB | 14339 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 30.1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Diameters | Rim 5.8; base 6.4 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Handle_height | 7.4 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Location | Death | ||||||||||||||||||
| Edited_by | Georgia; Karen; Kinsey | ||||||||||||||||||
| Date_edited | 16.06.2003; 05.04.2004; 06.01.2006 |
