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Lekythos
| Object Number: | 73-25-1 |
| Current Location: |
Greece Gallery Currently On Display |
| Culture: | Attic |
| Provenience: | Mediterranean |
| Manufacture Location: | Athens |
| Period: | Classical Greek Period |
| Date Made: | 499-400 BC |
| Early Date: | -499 |
| Late Date: | 499-400 BC |
| Section: | Mediterranean |
| Materials: | Ceramic |
| Technique: | White Ground |
| Iconography: | Woman Wool Basket Klismos Doric Column Spinning |
| Height: | 21.8 cm |
| Outside Diameter: | 7.6 cm |
| Credit Line: | Gift of Robert H. Bates, 1973 |
| Other Number: | L-224-2 - Old Loan Number |
Description
Lekythos. Foot, except for top surface, reserved. Lower wall also fully glazed. Rest of wall covered with white ground. Left to right: wool basket; woman seated on a klismos in profile facing right, arms extended in front of her, one above the other, as if spinning; Doric column. Border above: meander and cross. Shoulder, on clay ground: palmettes. Neck, lip, and outer surface of handle glazed. Parts of white ground area of wall and of shoulder are repainted.
Current & Past Exhibitions:
| Ancient Greek World (08 May 1994) | View Objects in Exhibition |
Bibliography:
| [Catalogue] 1965. Guide to the Collections, The University Museum.. Philadelphia. The University Museum. pg. 1-167 Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p.56 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
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