lekythos
- Museum number
- 1887,0725.2
- Description
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Pottery lekythos decorated in the Six Technique. Design incised on a black ground, with white and pale red accessories. On the shoulder, lotus-buds in black on a red ground.
A Maenad rushing to right, looking to left, with necklace, long chiton, and himation with red borders; the flesh is painted white, the hair (which is looped up under a fillet) red; her hands are extended, in the left is a chelys, which is painted red. In the field, imitation inscriptions.
- Production date
- 500BC-480BC
- Dimensions
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Height: 19.05 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- BM Cat. Vases
Class. Rev. i. (1887), p. 250; Gaz. Arch. 1888, p. 204.
Cf. Furtwaengler, Coll. Sabouroff, pl. 54, 1.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Neck broken away.
- Acquisition date
- 1887
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1887,0725.2
