Lekythos

50-1-79

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

Object Number 50-1-79
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Attic
Provenience Mediterranean
Manufacture Location Attica
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Technique Black Figure
Iconography Dionysos | Folding Stool | Nymph | Grape Vine | Furniture
Description

Black figured lekythos. Intact, save for chips on foot. On shoulder palmette center, between two lotus blossoms; center of palmette dotted with red. On body, front: Dionysus seated on a folding stool; right: to each side a draped nymph, dancing (?). In the field grape tendrils and clusters. Added red for beard of Dionysus and touched on drapery of all three figures.

Height 14.8 cm
Outside Diameter 6.5 cm
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. R. Hare Davis, 1950

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