lebes gamikos
- Museum number
- 1756,0101.487
- Description
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Campanian red figured pottery lebes gamikos depicting, A: Female figure seated with a young female slave standing before her, the seated figure has her hair gathered in a knot behind and advances her right hand towards the slave, the slave rests on her right leg and advances her right hand, on the wall above hangs a sash; B: Nude female figure washing at a lauter, on the other side a female figure wearing a taleric chiton is standing and stretching out her right hand towards her; marked at the corner of each handle with a head in relief; one of the handles is now broken; lid now missing.
- Production date
- 350BC-330BC
- Dimensions
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Height: 28 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Sir Hans Sloane’s ‘Miscellanea’ catalogue is a bound volume in Central Archives containing seven separate catalogues: ‘Miscellanies’, ‘Antiquities’, ‘Seals’, ‘Pictures’, ‘Mathematical Instruments’, ‘Agate Handles’ and ‘Agate Cups, Bottles, Spoons’. Each contains numbered entries that list and describe objects collected by Sloane between the 1680s and 1750s. Each catalogue begins with object number one.
Text from Sloane Miscellanea catalogue: Miscellanea Antiquities 487 "487. A large double handled vase made of grayish red earth wt. 4 heads on its top round its cover on each side of which are two figures - looking towards each other, painted after the Etruscan manner. From Rome by the abbot Sterbini."
- Location
- On display (G1/wp60/sh5)
- Acquisition date
- 1753
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1756,0101.487
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: SLAntiq.487
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Sloane Miscellanea Catalogue number: 487 (Antiquities)