Ure Museum | Database

cite as: https://uremuseum.org/record/38.4.8

Accession_Number

38.4.8

Shape

Lekythos

Shape_description

Shallow cup mouth

Material

Terracotta

Fabric

Attic

Fabric_description

Pink, fine-grained clay

Munsell_color

7.5YR 7/4

Decoration

Mouth black inside and out with red lip. Shoulder has ivy leaf at front upright between two inverted lotus flowers. Body has a siren between two draped (male) onlookers, the right one holding a spear upright. No added colour, no incisions. Beneath figural zone is a horizontal band and then solid back to the top of the foot. Side of foot and underside reserved.

Inscriptions

Condition

Intact and complete except for chips on the top of the foot. Decoration is worn and chipped.

Technique/Style

Black figure

Provenance

Acquired in Athens

Period

High Archaic

Date

550-525

Dating_details

Artist

Attribution

Image

2003.11.0096.jpg	Front view of an Attic black-figure lekythos, showing a siren.
2003.97.0606.jpg	Front view of an Attic black-figure lekythos, showing a siren.
2003.97.0607.jpg	Back view of an Attic black-figure lekythos, showing the handle.
2003.97.0608.jpg	Top view of an Attic black-figure lekythos, showing the mouth and shoulder decoration.
2003.97.0609.jpg	Bottom view of an Attic black-figure lekythos, showing the reserved base.
2013.99.0014.jpg	Oblique view of an Attic lekythos, showing the black foot, the black on the inside of the mouth and the red lip.
2013.99.0015.jpg	Front view of an Attic lekythos, showing the siren with one male onlooker holding a spear upright.
2013.99.0016.jpg	Front view of an Attic lekythos, showing part of the siren with one male onlooker holding a spear upright.
2013.99.0017.jpg	Front view of an Attic lekythos, showing the black handle and the bands and the black lower body.
2013.99.0018.jpg	Front view of an Attic lekythos, showing part the siren with one male onlooker.
2013.99.0019.jpg	Front view of part of an Attic lekythos, showing part the siren with one male onlooker holding.
2013.99.0020.jpg	Front view of an Attic lekythos, showing the siren with part of two male onlookers.
2013.99.0021.jpg	Front view of an Attic lekythos, showing part the siren with one male onlooker holding a spear.
2013.99.0022.jpg	Front view of the top of an Attic Lekythos, showing the mouth and ivy decoration on the shoulders.
2013.99.0023.jpg	Front view of the bottom of an Attic Lekythos, showing the base.
2016.3d.01.02.jpg	3D Model