Attic White Ground black-figure Lekythos with Palmette decoration

ca. 500–475 B.C.

Medium: Terracotta; black-figure
Dimensions: 7 3/4 × 2 5/8 in. (19.7 × 6.7 cm)
diameter of the mouth: 1 7/16 in. (3.6 cm)
diameter of the foot: 1 3/4 in. (4.5 cm)
Credit Line: Yale University Art Gallery
Accession Number: 1967.74.8
Culture: Greek, Attic
Period: Classical
Classification: Containers
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Provenance

Penciled on underside of foot: "CAMEIROS RHODES;" donor and date of donation to Yale unknown, but at Yale prior to 1967 (found in storage).

Bibliography

Susan B. Matheson, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Yale University Art Gallery (Darmstadt, Germany: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 2016), 48-49, no. 36, pl. 97.1-2, fig. 31

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Object/Work type

lekythoi

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