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Accession_Number

REDMG:1926.99.54

Shape

Lekythos

Shape_description

Chimney mouth (missing), offset slightly from a tall cylindrical neck, which broadens to a slightly diagonal shoulder. Small strap handle arches up from just below the mouth and rejoins at the bottom of the shoulder; below a carination at shoulder is a cylindrical body, tapering towards the base, and then sharply narrowing to a short stem, attached to a moulded pedestal foot, with a profile that is slightly convex; the slightly concave underside has a conical indentation at centre.

Material

Terracotta

Fabric

Attic

Fabric_description

Munsell_color

5YR 6/6

Decoration

Mouth black interior and exterior; reserved neck; black on exterior of handle; band of black vertical bars above white band decorated black rays on shoulder, extending to carination. Body, top: white band decorated with two rows of black dots joined by a thin black zigzag (at front, only), above two black lines; figural scene (front only); white band; black band between two black lines; black to foot and on top of foot; otherwise reserved. Figural scene is of a chariot behind which stand three draped female figures (two women, standing profile to right, towards a third figure, standing profile to left. A fourth female figure sits profile to left, in front of the chariot. All four figures are draped, wreathed (with red bands), and have white faces.

Inscriptions

Condition

Mouth missing. White is faded and stained gray on the shoulder; some of the black glaze has chipped off.

Technique/Style

Black figure; added white; incised

Provenance

Period

Classical

Date

450

Dating_details

Artist

Haimon Group

Attribution

Perhaps by the

Image

2001.99.0062.jpg
2001.99.0063.jpg	3/4-left side view of an Attic black-figure lekythos, showing three figures behind a chariot.
2001.99.0064.jpg	Front view of an Attic black-figure lekythos, showing three figures and two horses.
2001.99.0065.jpg	Right side view of an Attic black-figure lekythos, showing the front of the chariot and a seated figure.
2001.99.0066.jpg	Right side view of an Attic black-figure lekythos, showing the front of the chariot and a seated figure.
2001.99.0067.jpg	Back view of an Attic black-figure lekythos, showing the handle.
2001.99.0068.jpg	Oblique view, from slightly above, of an Attic black-figure lekythos, showing the shoulder.
2003.93.0390.jpg	Front view of an Attic black-figure lekythos, showing three figures and two horses.
2003.93.0391.jpg	Right side view of an Attic black-figure lekythos, showing the front of the chariot and a seated figure.
2003.97.0463.jpg	Front view of an Attic black-figure lekythos, showing a chariot scene.
2003.97.0464.jpg	Back view of an Attic black-figure lekythos, showing the handle.
2003.97.0465.jpg	Top view of Attic black-figure lekythos showing the broken mouth and the top of the handle and shoulder.
2003.97.0466.jpg	Bottom view of Attic black-figure lekythos, showing reserved base and bottom of body.