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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1925.30.52
Title
Lekythos (oil flask): Offerings at a Tomb
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
430 BCE
Places
Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Attica
Period
Classical period, High
Culture
Greek
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/291118

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Terracotta
Technique
White ground
Dimensions
26.8 cm (10 9/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
JCH purchased in Athens 1897.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Beazley Archive Database #216432

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Joseph C. Hoppin
Accession Year
1925
Object Number
1925.30.52
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Offerings at a tomb; in center a Doric stele on two stpes hung with red garlands; at l. a draped female figure and on the r. a youth wearing a cloak in red ; between him and the stele a "soul" in silhouette, almost entirely obliterated

Publication History

  • Joseph Clark Hoppin and Albert Gallatin, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, U.S.A.: volume 1, Hoppin and Gallatin Collections, Libraire Ancienne Edouard Champion (Paris, 1926)
  • 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Ground Lekythoi" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 1994), Unpublished, pp. 1-24 passim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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