Black-figure Lekythos Artist: Phanyllis Group B, Group of the Arming Lekythoi (active ca. 575–500 B.C.)

540–520 B.C.

Ancient Art

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Medium

Terracotta, black-figure

Dimensions

9 3/4 × 5 1/8 in. (24.8 × 13 cm)
diameter of foot: 2 7/8 in. (7.3 cm)
diameter of mouth: 2 7/16 in. (6.2 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Ambassador and Mrs. William Witman II, B.A. 1935

Accession Number

1993.46.16

Culture

Greek, Attic or Euboean

Classification

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Provenance
Ambassador and Mrs. William Witman, II, acquired in Greece between 1945 and 1948; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., acquired from the above, 1993.
Bibliography
  • Susan B. Matheson, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Yale University Art Gallery (Darmstadt, Germany: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 2016), 29–30, no. 19, Pls 85, 97.5, fig. 16.
  • "Acquisitions and Gifts 1993," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (1994): 172.
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
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Object/Work type

lekythoi

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