1965.04

Attic Black-Figure Lekythos

Presented by the Museum of Classical Archaeology, Cambridge. Preserved ht 10.lcm; diam. 4.6cm.

The mouth and handle are missing and the surface is worn. On the shoulder, rays with bars above. The body is white-ground and has three palmettes on a band of dot-filled chain, framed by lotus and with arcs over. On the lower wall are two incised lines. There is a band of black on the vertical face of the foot; the underside is reserved.

From the workshop of the Beldam Painter; compare for the shape and general scheme 1973.07-1973.09. See D.C. Kurtz, Athenian White Lekythoi (Oxford 1975) 153 and pl. 69, 2 for a well-preserved example.

Towards the middle of the fifth century BC.

J.R. Green with B. Rawson, Catalogue of Antiquities in the Australian National University, A.N.U. (Canberra, 1981) 29. Beazley Archive Pottery Database 7654.