Attic red-figure pottery lekythos depicting a mythological scene
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
470 BC - 450 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
47.3 cm (height)
9.3 cm rim (diameter)
10 cm foot (diameter)
14.2 cm (width)
1.6 cm (rim thickness) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Purchased, 1896.
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Museum location
Museum department
Antiquities
Accession no.
AN1896-1908.G.292
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Further reading
Beazley, John, D., Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Great Britain 3, Oxford 1 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1927), nos 1-2 on p. 27, nos 1-2 on pl. 35; no. 14 on pl. 38
Boardman, John, Athenian Red Figure Vases The Classical Period: a handbook (London: Thames & Hudson, 1989), p. 15; no. 25 on p. 245, no. 25 on p. 28
Vickers, Michael, J., Ancient Greek Pottery (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1999), no. 34 on p. 46, no. 34 on p. 46
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