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Accession_Number

45.6.72

Shape

Lekythos

Shape_description

Squat lekythos

Material

Terracotta

Fabric

Lucanian

Fabric_description

Clay yellowish-buff.

Munsell_color

Decoration

Mouth is red on top and black down neck until a moulded ridge when there are rays down to black square blocks on shoulder. Band of vine leaves. Handle is black and below it is a palmette complex with tendrils either side joining to two more palmette designs. On front, is head and shoulders of a woman facing left, wearing tight-fitting black cap, with hair emerging in two curls at top. Serrated leaf and rosettes in field.

Inscriptions

Condition

Design on face has been much rubbed off. Incomplete and repaired with eight segments missing. Handle and body repaired.

Technique/Style

Red figure

Provenance

Period

Late Classical

Date

350-325

Dating_details

Artist

Primato Group; Primato Painter

Attribution

Trendall, LCS 178.1067: possibly by the Primato Painter, but belonging to a group of 'minor vases' that may be 'workshop pieces' (176).

Image

2003.26.0002.jpg	Lekythos, side view. Shows head and shoulders of a woman, facing left.
2003.26.0005.jpg	Lekythos, side view. Shows part of palmette complex centered below handle.
2003.27.0003.jpg	Two lucanian leythos, shows head and shoulders of a women.
2003.27.0011.jpg	Two lucanian leythos, one on the left (45.6.72) and one on the right (44.4.1.)
2003.27.0098.jpg	Lekythos, side view. Shows palmette complex below handle.
2003.98.0187.jpg	Right side view of a Lucanian red-figure squat lekythos, showing palmette decoration on the exterior.
2003.98.0188.jpg	Top view of Lucanian red-figure squat lekythos, showing the wide lip.
2003.98.0189.jpg	Bottom view of a Lucanian red-figure squat lekythos, showing the reserved base.