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cite as: https://uremuseum.org/record/50.10.4

Accession_Number

50.10.4

Shape

Lekythos

Shape_description

Cup mouth, a vertical, banded handle and a disk-shaped base.

Material

Terracotta

Fabric

Attic

Fabric_description

Munsell_color

5YR 7/6

Decoration

The mouth is black inside and out with a reserved rim. The neck and underside of handle are also reserved, while the top of the handle is black. The shoulder is decorated with short lines and four palmettes (of which one is upside down) linked with tendrils. The back of the body is black and the front bears the representation of a draped woman in an unnaturalistic posture. She is facing right with her head and chest turned back to her left. She is holding a case (kiste? with drawers?) in her right hand and extends out her left (the gesture is as if holding a phiale). There is reserved line under her feet and the woman looks as if she stepps on it. Additionally, the foot's upper surface is black. There is also a small, concave section at the centre of the base.

Inscriptions

Condition

The rim has been reconstructed from 2 fragments repaired. The handle has also been rejoined with the vessel and the whole of the upper part (from rim to end of shoulder) has been reattached to the body. The glaze is shiny in places but has begun to crack in others. There are also deposits on the rim, neck, shoulder and foot / base. Several bits have pitted off from the body.

Technique/Style

Red figure

Provenance

Period

High Classical

Date

450-425

Dating_details

Artist

Painter of Reading 50.X.4; Carlsruhe Painter

Attribution

Name vase of of the Painter of Reading 50 X 4 (ARV2 676.13), and 'Manner of the Carlsruhe Painter' (739.1), according to Beazley.

Image

2003.71.0001.jpg	Front view of an Attic red-figure lekythos, showing a woman with a box, running to the right.
2003.94.0050.jpg	Left side view of an Attic red-figure lekythos.
2003.94.0051.jpg	Front view of an Attic red-figure lekythos, showing a woman with a box, running to the right.
2003.94.0052.jpg	Right side view of an Attic red-figure lekythos, showing a woman with a box.
2003.94.0053.jpg	Back view of an Attic red-figure lekythos, showing the handle.
2003.94.0054.jpg	Top view of an Attic red-figure lekythos, showing the mouth and some of the shoulder ornament.
2003.94.0055.jpg	Bottom view of an Attic red-figure lekythos, showing the reserved base.
2003.94.0056.jpg	Oblique view, from above, of an Attic red-figure lekythos, showing the shoulder ornament.
2004.71.0006.jpg	Front view of an Attic red-figure lekythos, showing a woman with a box, running to the right.
2005.88.0080.jpg
2013.99.0024.jpg	Oblique view of an Attic lekythos, showing the line and palmette decoration on the shoulders and the woman holding a case on the body.
2013.99.0025.jpg	Front view of an Attic lekythos, showing the woman facing right and holding a case.
2013.99.0026.jpg	Front view of an Attic lekythos, showing the black body and part of the case that the woman is holding.
2013.99.0027.jpg	Front view of an Attic lekythos, showing the handle and the black body.
2013.99.0028.jpg	Front view of an Attic lekythos, showing the black body.
2013.99.0029.jpg	Front view of part of an Attic lekythos, showing the woman facing right and holding a case.
2013.99.0030.jpg	Front view of the top of an Attic lekythos, showing the palmette decoration on the shoulders.
2013.99.0031.jpg	Front view of the top of an Attic lekythos, showing the palmette decoration on the shoulders.
2013.99.0032.jpg	Front view of the bottom of an Attic lekythos, showing the base.