| Inventory Number: | P 10369 | |
| Section Number: | ΟΧ 163 | |
| Title: | White Ground Lekythos | |
| Category: | Pottery | |
| Description: | Small fragments of shoulder, walls and foot missing; mouth and neck black; black below scene worn. In the neck, an inset, which alone could be filled from the mouth: H. 0.057 from neck down; Diam. 0.031; Th. of walls ca. 0.003. Flat bottom, left rough. At base of neck, egg pattern; three palmettes with tendrils on shoulder. Above scene, maeander broken by dotted X-squares. Reserved line below scene. A youth and a woman face each other at a stele; the youth, standing at the left, is nude, and holds a strigil in his left hand. On the wall behind him hangs an aryballos. The woman wears a purple chiton; in her left hand she holds an alabastron; with her right she clasps the top of her head. On the wall behind her, a cloth with strings (sakkos?). The plain stele rests on three steps, and is topped by a simple moulding, just below which are tied fillets, one red and one brown. Firm glaze drawing (not relief lines) shading to brown; light brown for her hair. Publ. ca. 440 B.C. | |
| Context: | Burned pit 2 (1). | |
| Negatives: | Leica, 6-213, 6-214, 6-341, 6-342, 6-410, IV-31 | |
| PD Number: | PD 905, Ptg. 174, Ptg. 175, Ptg. 176 | |
| Dimensions: | Diam. 0.10; H. 0.307 | |
| Chronology: | Publ. ca. 440 B.C. | |
| Date: | 21 April 1936 | |
| Section: | ΟΧ | |
| Period: | Greek | |
| Bibliography: | Lynch (2007a), p. 218, figs. 184D, E. | |
| Hesperia 32 (1963), pp. 123-124, no. F 1, fig. 4, pls. 40, 43, 44. | ||
| Hesperia 6 (1937), p. 361, figs. 22, 23. | ||
| ARV, p. 808, no. 2, Thanatos P. | ||
| Paralip., p. 466. | ||
| References: | Publication: Hesperia 6 (1937) Publication: Hesperia 32 (1963) Plans and Drawings (5) Images (8) Card: P 10369 Card: P 10369 |
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