Lekythos
58-29-7
From: Greece | Mediterranean
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 58-29-7 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Attic |
| Provenience | Greece | Mediterranean |
| Manufacture Location | Attica |
| Date Made | 499-450 BCE |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Technique | Black Figure |
| Iconography | Peleus | Thetis | Nereid |
| Description | Black figured lekythos. Intact, except for chips. molded foot, narrow neck, bell-shaped mouth. Rays at base of neck, rays on shoulder. On body front, Peleus wrestling Thetis, between two females, presumably Nereids, who run away in either direction, looking back. Vine branches in the field. Careless incision; added white for female flesh and for fruit clusters on the vine branches. |
| Height | 19.5 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 7 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1958 |
| Other Number | 91-79 - Philadelphia Museum of Art Number |
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