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Attic Black-Figure Lekythos - 1965.04

Acquisition number: 1965.04

Attic Black-Figure Lekythos. 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.

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Title: Attic Black-Figure Lekythos - 1965.04

Acquisition number: 1965.04

Attribution: Beldam Painter.

Author or editor: J.R. Green

Culture or period: Classical Greece.

Date: Mid 5th century BC.

Material: Clay - Terracotta

Object type: Pottery - Black-figure

Dimensions: 46mm (w) × 101mm (h)

Origin region or location: Greece

Origin city: Athens.

Display case or on loan: 3

Keywords: Greek, Attic, Black Figure, Beldam Painter

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.

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.