Attic black-figure pottery lekythos depicting an athletics scene
On display
Details
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Title
Attic black-figure pottery lekythos depicting an athletics scene
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Associated place
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Date
505 BC - 485 BC
Archaic Period (750 - 480 BC) -
Material and technique
pottery, with painted and incised decoration
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Object type
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Dimensions
32.3 cm (height)
7 cm rim (diameter)
9.5 cm foot (diameter)
13.5 cm (width)
0.8 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.
AN1890.27
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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.250
Boardman, John, Athenian Black Figure Vases (London: Oxford University Press, 1974), p. 147; no. 239 on p. 246, no. 239 on p. 151
Beazley, John, Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (New York: Hacker Art Books, 1978), no. 2 on p. 216
Vickers, Michael J., Greek Vases (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1978), 31
Vickers, Michael, J., Ancient Greek Pottery (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1999), no. 22 on p. 34, no. 22 on p. 34
