lekythos
- Museum number
- 1876,0328.2
- Description
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Pottery: White-ground lekythos.
Hare-hunt beside a stele. The locality is indicated in faint brown lines as the rocky slope of a hill, which rises to the upper border on the left side. At the foot of the hill is a plain stele, surmounted by a cornice and resting on quadruple plinth; around it is tied a taenia, another is laid on top, and two more rest on the plinth and rocks below. Up the hill beside the stele runs a hare closely pursued by a large hound, urged on by a nude youth on right, who carries a mantle on his left arm and a club over his shoulder, and extends his right toward the hare. On the left, under the hill, a second youth strides forward with left foot raised on a rock, and hurling with his right a stone, apparently at the hare; from his left hangs a club, and he has a mantle over his left shoulder.
Drawing of good period; brown outline; hair stippled black on brown; dress of left-hand figure in red wash with brown folds; skin of hare in light brown wash; ends of taenia black. Eye in profile. Above, a strip of maeander; on shoulder, three palmettes below egg pattern, black on white.
- Production date
- 435BC-425BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 31.75 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- BM Cat. Vases
White Athenian Vases, pl. 6.
For a similar subject cf. Tischbein, Hamilton Vases, iv, pl. 60; also a lekythos in Athens Mus. No. 1973.
- Location
- On display (G19/dc2)
- Acquisition date
- 1876
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1876,0328.2
