Attic red-figure pottery lekythos depicting a mythological scene
On display
Details
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Title
Attic red-figure pottery lekythos depicting a mythological scene
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Associated place
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Date
480 BC - 460 BC
Classical Period (Greece) (480 - 323 BC) -
Material and technique
pottery, with painted decoration
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Object type
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Dimensions
35 cm (height)
rim 8.5 cm (diameter)
foot 9 cm (diameter)
12 cm (width)
1.3 cm (rim thickness) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Presented by Arthur Evans, 1888.
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Museum location
Ground floor | Gallery 16 | The Greek World -
Museum department
Antiquities
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Accession no.
AN1888.1401
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Further reading
Gardner, P., Evans, A., Catalogue of the Greek Vases in the Ashmolean Museum, Museum Oxoniense, 1 (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1893), no. 312 on p. 31, pl. 23
Beazley, John, D., Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Great Britain 3, Oxford 1 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1927), no.s 2 on p. 33, no. 2 on pl. 33
Beazley, John, Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963), no. 102 on p. 556
Boardman, John, Athenian Red Figure Vases the Archiac Period (London: Thames and Hudson, 1975), p. 180; no. 348 on p. 247, no. 348 on p. 192
Vickers, Michael J., Greek Vases (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1978), 45
Burn, L., Glynn, R, Beazley Addenda. Additional References to ABV, ARV2 & Paralipomena (Oxford University Press, 1982), no. 556.102 on p. 126
Vickers, Michael, J., Ancient Greek Pottery (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1999), no. 31 on p. 43, no. 31 on p. 43
