Corinth Object: C 1925 6
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1925 6
Title:   ATTIC BLACK-FIGURE LEKYTHOS
Category Code:   C
Year:   1925
Object Number:   6
Description:   Lekythos with cylindrical body, beginning of low sloping shoulder.
Decoration:   On body, rape scene: at rt. woman standing with head turned back to lt., her rt. arm wrapped around head (?) of man at lt., bent over to carry her off. He wears chitoniskos with incised central pleats; woman wears long garment with incised folds partly covered with added purple. Her skin white. Dotted tendrils to right and left with occasional white blobs. Above, border of two rows of dots between double lines.
Material:   Fine pinkish-buff clay with very fine scattered black inclusions and voids.
Munsell Color:   Ca. 5YR 6/5
Condition:   Fragment. Single body frgt., broken all around.
Manufacture:   18 Black-Figure
Dimensions Preserved:   H00.061
Period:   5th c. B.C.
Chronology:   490-480 B.C.
Provenance:   Attica
Bibliography:   Brownlee, Hesperia 64.3, 1995, cat. 194.
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Brownlee, Hesperia 64:3, 1995