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| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 1939 327 | |
| Title: | ATTIC BLACK-FIGURE LEKYTHOS | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 1939 | |
| Object Number: | 327 | |
| Description: | Lekythos with foot in two degrees, concave undersurface with central depression; narrow stem, nearly cylindrical body, flaring slightly to low, sloping shoulder; cylindrical neck; vertical strap handle attached to shoulder and neck, flaring rim and tapered, horizontal lip. | |
| Decoration: | Symposium. Man reclines on couch, his head turned to right. Woman playing lyre sits on foot of couch, facing right. Alongside couch, table with food(?). Scene flanked by women seated on folding stools. Vine branches with fruit in field. Above, four rows of dots. On shoulder, tongues and rays. White: female flesh, fruit, lyre, decoration on couch and table, food(?) on table, stripes on man's drapery. Manner of the Haimon Painter. | |
| Material: | Fine reddish yellow clay. | |
| Munsell Color: | 5YR 6/6 (reddish yellow) | |
| Condition: | Complete or intact. Glaze flaking on body. Chips on lip and body under handle. | |
| Manufacture: | C18 WM | |
| Period: | 5th c. B.C. | |
| Chronology: | 490-470 B.C. | |
| Area: | Hexamilia Tombs | |
| Context: | NB156 P87 | |
| Provenance: | Attica | |
| Bibliography: | Brownlee, Hesperia 64.3, 1995, cat. 199. | |
| Site: | Tombs, Heximilia | |
| City: | Hexamilia | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Brownlee, Hesperia 64:3, 1995 Monument: Hexamilia Tombs Basket: NB156 P87 Notebook Page: NB 156, spread 50 (pp. 87 - 88) |
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