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Accession_Number

50.5.3

Shape

Lekythos

Shape_description

Rounded mouth, thin lip. Thick strap handle curves up from bottom of neck before descending to shoulder. Ring at the junction between neck and shoulder. Curivng shoulder towards the neck. Body inverted pear shape. Thin foot. Base convex underneath.

Material

Terracotta

Fabric

Euboean

Fabric_description

Munsell_color

5YR 7/6

Decoration

Shoulder: two cocks facing each other, heads downwards. Purple for comb and wattles. Body: two swans facing each other with their heads down and wings open: Added red on wings. It has faded on the left one. Added white bands on wings of swand and cocks that has mostly faded. The rest of the body is black, fired to brown. Ring on the junction of neck and shoulder, foot and handle black. Underside of the foot reserved.

Inscriptions

Condition

Mouth and upper part of neck modern and intact handle. Most of the black has faded to a light brown color. The neck and mouth has been rebuilt by modern material. The surface appears in fairly good condition, except for some deep scratches around the neck. Left swan scratched face, right swan intact face. There are other small scratches on the surface and bit of flaking and chipping, especially around the edge of the foot.

Technique/Style

Black figure

Provenance

Period

Late Archaic

Date

500

Dating_details

Artist

Dolphin Group

Attribution

Beazley: ABV 457.3

Image

2002.97.0703.jpg	Left side view of a Euboean black-figure lekythos, showing a cock (shoulder) and a swan (body).
2002.97.0704.jpg	Top view of a Euboean black-figure lekythos, showing the mouth and shoulder.
2002.97.0705.jpg	Back view of a Euboean black-figure lekythos, showing the handle and black band faded to red on lower half of body.
2002.97.0706.jpg	Front view of a Euboean black-figure lekythos, showing two confronting swans.
2002.97.0707.jpg	Bottom view of a Euboean black-figure lekythos laying on its side, showing the base.
2003.64.0002.jpg	Left side view of a Euboeoan black-figure lekythos, showing birds, perhaps cocks (shoulder) and swans (upper body).
2003.64.0008.jpg	Detail of a Euboeoan black-figure lekythos, showing a swan (upper body).
2003.93.0348.jpg	Right side view of a Euboean black-figure lekythos, showing a cock (shoulder) and a swan (body).
2003.93.0350.jpg	Front view of a Euboean black-figure lekythos, showing two confronting swans.
2003.93.0352.jpg	Detail of a Euboeoan black-figure lekythos, showing a swan (upper body).
2007.01.0001.jpg	Above, left side view of a Euboeoan black-figure lekythos, showing a cock (shoulder) and a swan (upper body).
2007.01.0012.jpg	Above, right side view of a Euboeoan black-figure lekythos, showing a cock (shoulder) and a swan (upper body).
2007.01.0015.jpg	Right side view of a Euboeoan black-figure lekythos, showing a cock and a swan.
2007.01.0016.jpg	Front view of a lekythos showing the decoration on the shoulder and the body.