Ure Museum | Database

cite as: https://uremuseum.org/record/35.4.2

Accession_Number

35.4.2

Shape

Lekythos

Shape_description

The handle is small and joined from the shoulder to the neck below the mouth and the body is ellipsoid.

Material

Terracotta

Fabric

Euboean

Fabric_description

Munsell_color

7.5YR 7/6

Decoration

Black on mouth and neck. Lower part of neck has vertical black lines which are thicker at the bottom. Palmette design on body with chevron heart framed in tendrils and with dots in groups of three either side of central leaf. Right and left a cluster of leaves and beyond, on either side of handle, similar cluster reversed. Beneath handle, cluster of leaves. Black band at bottom of base and foot. Base reserved.

Inscriptions

Condition

Complete but comprised of rejoined pieces from the neck, mouth and handle.

Technique/Style

Black figure; floral ware

Provenance

Possibly from Chalcis

Period

Late Classical

Date

375-350

Dating_details

Artist

Graziano Group

Attribution

Ure 1960, 215.

Image

2002.97.0682.jpg	Oblique view of an Euboean floral-ware lekythos, showing a palmette design.
2002.97.0683.jpg	Oblique view of an Euboean floral-ware lekythos, showing a palmette design.
2002.97.0684.jpg	Top view of an Euboeoan floral-ware lekythos, showing the lip, top of the handle, and part of the shoulder.
2002.97.0685.jpg	Front view of the bottom of an Euboeoan floral-ware lekythos, showing the base.
2003.28.0004.jpg	A Euboean lekythos, left (35.4.2), with an Apulian kantharos, right (22.3.4)
2003.28.0092.jpg	Front view of an Euboean floral-ware lekythos, showing a palmette design.
2003.28.0097.jpg	Front view of an Euboean floral-ware lekythos, showing a crack in the lip and handle.
2004.05.0005.jpg	Front view of an Euboean floral-ware lekythos, showing a palmette design.
2004.05.0007.jpg	Front view of an Euboean floral-ware lekythos, showing a palmette design.
2004.05.0008.jpg	Front view of an Euboean floral-ware lekythos, showing a palmette design.