lekythos
- Museum number
- 1836,0224.113
- Description
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Pottery: black-figured lekythos. Restored (white repainted). Design black on white ground, with purple accessories. On the shoulder, palmettes on red ground.
Theseus slaying the Minotaur: Theseus to right beardless, with long hair, fillet, cuirass, short chiton, sheath at side, and drawn sword in right hand, with left hand seizes the horn of the Minotaur, who has a bull's head and tail, and crouches down to right with left leg doubled under him, and face turned to left. The Minotaur has a stone in either hand, and blood flows from a wound on the right side of his neck. On either side is an Athenian maiden looking on, with long hair and long embroidered chiton; the one on the left has a himation and left hand raised; the other has a diploidion over her chiton and right hand raised. In the field above is a garment suspended.
- Production date
- 500BC-480BC
- Dimensions
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Height: 31.10 centimetres (about)
- Curator's comments
- BM Cat. Vases
Wulff, Theseussage. p. 32.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
- Associated Event: Theseus kills the Minotaur
- Acquisition date
- 1836
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1836,0224.113