Attic red-figure pottery lekythos depicting a mythological scene
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Details
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Title
Attic red-figure pottery lekythos depicting a mythological scene
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Associated place
Attica (place of creation) -
Date
470 BC - 450 BC -
Material and technique
pottery, with painted decoration
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Object type
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Dimensions
41.6 cm (height)
rim 8 cm (diameter)
foot 9 cm (diameter)
15.9 cm (width)
1.8 cm (rim thickness) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Purchased, 1890.
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Museum location
Ground floor | Gallery 16 | The Greek World -
Museum department
Antiquities
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Accession no.
AN1890.26
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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. 322 on p. 32, Lekythos, pl.18
Beazley, John, D., Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Great Britain 3, Oxford 1 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1927), nos 1-2 on p. 28, Lekythos, nos 1-2 on pl. 37
Beazley, John, Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963), no. 1 on p. 627
