Acquisition number: 1973.09
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Attic Black-Figure Lekythos. The neck has been broken and rejoined; the handle is missing. The surface is worn. The mouth is painted inside and out; the top of the lip is reserved. On the shoulder are strokes with bars above. The body is white-ground: a chariot group racing right (note the goals or turning posts) with a band of simple meander above. Below are lines, then two ‘wet-incised’ lines on the lower wall. There is a band on the vertical face of the foot. The underside is reserved. There is some evidence of reddening on the reserved areas.
Title: Attic Black-Figure Lekythos - 1973.09
Acquisition number: 1973.09
Attribution: Manner of the Haimon Painter.
Culture or period: Classical Greece.
Date: Mid 5th century BC.
Material: Clay - Terracotta
Object type: Pottery - Black-figure
Dimensions: 40mm (w) × 122mm (h)
Origin region or location: Greece
Origin city: Athens.
Display case or on loan: 3
Keywords: Greek, Attic, Black Figure, Haimon 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 7655.
1973.09
Attic Black-Figure Lekythos
Cyril Henry Leach Bequest, by courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum. Ht 12.2cm; diam. 4cm.
The neck has been broken and rejoined; the handle is missing. The surface is worn. The mouth is painted inside and out; the top of the lip is reserved. On the shoulder are strokes with bars above. The body is white-ground: a chariot group racing right (note the goals or turning posts) with a band of simple meander above. Below are lines, then two ‘wet-incised’ lines on the lower wall. There is a band on the vertical face of the foot. The underside is reserved. There is some evidence of reddening on the reserved areas.
Manner of the Haimon Painter; towards the middle of the fifth century bc. For the painting, see C.H.E. Haspels, Attic Black-figured Lekythoi (Paris 1936) 130ff., J.D. Beazley, Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford 1956) 538ff., Paralipomena: Additions to Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters and to Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford 1971) 269ff. For the subject, which is very common in this group, compare the vases listed in Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters 545 no. 195ff. (several of these also white-ground) and Paralipomena 276. For the general treatment of the vase, compare 1973.07 and 1973.08: it will be observed that the potting and the presence of the ‘wet incised’ lines on the lower wall are the same as there, and they are attributed to the workshop of the Beldam Painter. By this stage the two workshops seem to have amalgamated; see Green, Archäologischer Anzeiger 1970, 487.
J.R. Green with B. Rawson, Catalogue of Antiquities in the Australian National University, A.N.U. (Canberra, 1981) 29. Beazley Archive Pottery Database 7655.