Lekythos
MS4839
From: Italy | Etruria | Orvieto
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4839 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Attic |
| Provenience | Italy | Etruria | Orvieto |
| Manufacture Location | Attica |
| Date Made | 500-490 BCE |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Technique | Black Figure |
| Iconography | Warfare | Warrior | Youth | Chariot | Shield |
| Description | Departure of a warrior: youth, shield on back, mounting chariot; facing him, behind horses, a bearded man with a staff. Missing: fragments of body, much of shoulder, all of neck. Lip separate. For shape, decoration of shoulder cf. Haspels "ABL" pl. 16, 2. (Beazley, ABV, p. 379, no. 265: Leagros Group) Dated by Haspels ca. 500-490. |
| Height | 23.5 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 11.8 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Riccardo Mancini; Subscription of John Wanamaker, 1898 |
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