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Accession_Number 45.6.14
Shape Lekythos
Shape_description Shallow cup mouth
Material Terracotta
Fabric Attic
Fabric_description
Munsell_color
Decoration Lip reserved. Shoulder - 7-leaved palmette between two onlookers. Body: Hoplite leaving home, between two pairs of onlookers with spears. Red for hair, folds of himatia, helmet, four leaves of palmette. White for shield device (4 spokes of wheel)
Inscriptions
Condition
Technique/Style Black figure
Provenance
Period Late Archaic
Date 525-500
Dating_details
Artist Group of the Hoplite-Leaving-Home; Phanyllis Group E
Attribution Ure ('Group of the Hoplite-Leaving-Home')
Image

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Front view of an Attic black-figure lekythos, showing a hoplite between attendants.

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Back view of an Attic black-figure lekythos, showing the handle.

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Top view of an Attic black-figure lekythos, showing the mouth.

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Bottom view of an Attic black-figure lekythos, showing the base.

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Front view of an Attic black-figure lekythos, showing a hoplite between attendants.
Comparanda
Bibliography CVA Reading 1, pl. 11.9; ABV 699.276sexies
Archive_Ref
Beazley_DB 306676
Height 18.0
Diameters
Handle_height
Other_dims.
Location Warfare
Edited_by Karen; Kinsey
Date_edited 05.04.2004; 06.01.2006
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