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Accession_Number

REDMG:1953.25.25

Shape

Lekythos

Shape_description

Tall cylindrical neck, which broadens to a slightly diagonal shoulder. Small strap handle rejoins at the bottom of the shoulder; below a carination at shoulder is a cylindrical body, tapering gently towards the base, which is attached to a moulded pedestal foot, tapering down, with a profile that is slightly convex; the underside has a conical indentation at centre.

Material

Terracotta

Fabric

Attic

Fabric_description

Munsell_color

5YR 6/6

Decoration

Reserved neck; band of black vertical bars above a band of black rays on shoulder, extending to carination. Body: maeander to right (only at front), between two pairs of black lines; figural scene (front only); black band; black to foot and on top of foot, and top half of vertical surface of foot; otherwise reserved. Figural scene is of four seated figures, seemingly two women profile to right, the second playing a lyre, face a man reclining in 3/4-view to left on a kline (couch), with another female figure, profile to left, at his right. Dotted branches extend from the male figure (perhaps Dionysos) on either side. Added white for female flesh (faces) and fruit; incisions for drapery and fillets.

Inscriptions

Condition

Handle, mouth and most of neck are missing. The surface is cracked, and has peeled off in some parts at the back; only ghosts remain of the white details.

Technique/Style

Black figure; added white; incised

Provenance

Period

Classical

Date

500-450

Dating_details

Artist

Haimon Group

Attribution

Perhaps by

Image

2001.99.0057.jpg	Left side view of an Attic black-figure lekythos, showing a symposion.
2001.99.0058.jpg	Front view of an Attic black-figure lekythos, showing a symposion.
2001.99.0059.jpg	Right side view of an Attic black-figure lekythos, showing a symposion.
2001.99.0060.jpg	3/4-right side view of an Attic black-figure lekythos, showing a symposion.
2001.99.0061.jpg	Oblique view, from slightly above, of the left shoulder of an Attic black-figure lekythos, showing black tongue decoration on shoulder.
2001.99.0100.jpg	Right side view of an Attic black-figure lekythos, showing a symposion.
2001.99.0101.jpg	Back view of an Attic black-figure lekythos.
2001.99.0102.jpg	Left side view of an Attic black-figure lekythos, showing a symposion.
2001.99.0103.jpg	Front view of an Attic black-figure lekythos, showing a symposion.
2001.99.0104.jpg	3/4-right side view of an Attic black-figure lekythos, showing a symposion.
2001.99.0117.jpg	Oblique view, from slightly above, of the left shoulder of an Attic black-figure lekythos, showing black tongue decoration on shoulder.
2003.93.0392.jpg	Front view of an Attic black-figure lekythos, showing a symposion.
2003.93.0393.jpg	Right side view of an Attic black-figure lekythos, showing a symposion.
2003.97.0393.jpg	Front view of an Attic black-figure lekythos, showing a symposion.
2003.97.0394.jpg	Right side view of an Attic black-figure lekythos, showing a symposion.
2003.97.0395.jpg	Top view of an Attic black-figure lekythos, showing black tongue decoration on shoulder.
2003.97.0396.jpg	Bottom view of an Attic black-figure lekythos, showing reserved base.