alabastron
- Museum number
- 1842,0728.863
- Description
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Pottery: White-ground alabastron.
A woman in a long sleeved chiton decorated with crosses, and a himation around her legs, fillet and bracelets, sits to right in a chair, holding out in her right a fruit (?), in her left a mirror, towards an ephebos in an himation who leans forward against a staff, with right resting on his hip. Between them, on the ground, a calathos with wool; over it, a strigil and aryballos. Behind the ephebos, a taenia (?).
Late stage of severe style. Black outline; himation of woman, hair, wool, chair and staff in silhouette. Eye archaic. Above, a band of rays.
- Production date
- 470BC-460BC
- Dimensions
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Height: 17.10 centimetres
- Location
- On display (G20a/dc19)
- Condition
- Surface damaged.
- Acquisition date
- 1842
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1842,0728.863
