1959.222: Lekythos (oil flask): Woman Bringing Offering
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1959.222
- Title
- Lekythos (oil flask): Woman Bringing Offering
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- c. 450-400 BCE
- Period
- Classical period
- Culture
- Greek
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/290988
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Terracotta
- Technique
- White-ground
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- Standard Reference Number
- Beazley Archive Database #13443
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of David M. Robinson
- Accession Year
- 1959
- Object Number
- 1959.222
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- A woman bringing an offering basket to a tomb.
Publication History
- Fogg Art Museum, The David Moore Robinson Bequest of Classical Art and Antiquities, A Special Exhibition, exh. cat., Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, 1961), p. 17, no. 95
- Sarah Jane Rennie, "The Identification of Original Decoration on a Collection of Attic White Ground Lekythoi" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 1994), Unpublished, pp. 1-24 passim
Verification Level
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