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 |