lekythos
- Museum number
- 1836,0224.72
- Description
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Pottery: red-figured lekythos.
Nike with long undertied Doric chiton with apoptygma, long hair falling in three tresses on each shoulder, fillet, earrings, bracelets and necklace with pendant cross, standing nearly en face, looking to right, extending on either side a hand, in the right a phiale, in the left a lamp; her wings are extended on each side, as if she had just alighted. Beside her on right is a blazing altar, decorated with three taeniae, and having an Ionic capital, but with a broad projecting member in place of necking.
On the bottom of the foot incised characters.
Severe style. Purple flames, taeniae and bracelets. Brown marking of pinions and necklace; edge of hair in thinned black. Eye in archaic type. Drapery in broad regular folds. Below, a strip of maeander and key pattern in alternate sets of three; the same above, in a continuous band. On the shoulder a series of five palmettes connected by tendrils, diminishing from the centre towards the handle; round the neck, egg pattern.
- Production date
- 490BC-460BC
- Dimensions
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Height: 39.37 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- BM Cat. Vases
For the incised characters, see Old Catalogue, pl. B.751.
- Location
- On display (G20a/dc41)
- Acquisition date
- 1836
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1836,0224.72