Squat lekythos

ca. 400 B.C.

Ancient Art

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Medium

Terracotta, red-figured with added white and relief decoration in reserved red clay

Dimensions

3 3/4 × 2 5/8 in. (9.5 × 6.7 cm)
Foot: 2 3/16 in. (5.6 cm)
Reconstructed Height: 4 13/16 in. (12.3 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Rebecca Darlington Stoddard

Accession Number

1913.151

Culture

Greek, Attic

Period

Classical

Classification

Containers

Disclaimer

Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of records is ongoing.

Provenance
Ex. coll. Dr. Paul Arndt, Munich; purchased for Yale University by Rebecca Darlington Stoddard, 1913
Bibliography
  • Essi Ronkko and Hood Museum of Art, "Hood Museum," http://hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu (accessed June 2011-July 2021),
  • Susan B. Matheson, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Yale University Art Gallery I (Mainz, Germany: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 2011), 34–35, no. 29, pl. 37, fig. 29
  • Sian Lewis, The Athenian Woman: An Iconographic Handbook (London: Routledge, 2002), 130–71
  • Ellen D. Reeder, Pandora: Women in Classical Greece, exh. cat. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1995), 20–31
  • Martin Robertson, The Art of Vase-Painting in Classical Athens (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1992), 237–242
  • Professor Paul V. C. Baur, Catalogue of the Rebecca Darlington Stoddard Collection of Greek and Italian Vases at Yale University, 1st ed. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1922), 102, no. 151, pl. 11 (Reichhold drawing), fig. 27
  • Professor Paul V. C. Baur, Preliminary Catalogue of the Rebecca Darlington Stoddard Collection of Greek and Italian Vases in Yale University (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1914), 18, no. 153
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
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lekythoi

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