Corinth Object: T 814
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   T 814
Title:   ATTIC BLACK-FIGURE LEKYTHOS
Category:   Miscellaneous
Category Code:   T
Object Number:   814
Description:   Lekythos with disk foot and flaring profile, cylindrical body rising from narrow stem, sharply articulated low shoulder, tall narrow neck, flaring rim, flat lip. Vertical strap handle attached to shoulder and neck.
Decoration:   Foot reserved with black line; top of foot and lower body glazed, with wet-incised lines below scene. Scene: sacrifical procession? woman carrying ritual basket on head, walking r.; behind her, draped man with thyminaterion, cow led by third man. In field branches with fruit. White for woman's flesh, outline of men's robes, thumatierion, cow's horns, tail and fillets, fruit on braches; no added red. On shoulder, double rays. Neck plain. Rim black. By the Beldam Painter. Ca. 460-450 B.C.
Material:   Pinkish-buff Atticclay
Condition:   Complete or intact. Intact.
Dimensions Actual:   H. 0.211, Diam. foot 0.05, Diam. max. 0.07, Diam. rim 0.04
Period:   4th c. B.C.
Chronology:   460-450 B.C.
Bibliography:   Blegen, Palmer, and Young 1964, Corinth XIII, cat. 324-4
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Blegen, et al. Corinth 13, 1964
Image: bw 6584