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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1925.30.23
Title
Attic Black-figure Lekythos: Warrior's Departure
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
c. 520 BCE
Places
Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Attica
Period
Archaic period
Culture
Greek
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/291675

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Terracotta; fine reddish yellow clay with pale red slip
Technique
Wheel-made
Dimensions
21.5 cm h (8 7/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Joseph Clark Hoppin, purchased in Athens, 1896; bequest to Harvard University, 1925.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Joseph C. Hoppin
Accession Year
1925
Object Number
1925.30.23
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Depicts departure of a warrior and harnessing of horses.

On body, warrior's departure. On the left a warrior to right looking backwards and wearing a Corinthian helmet, cuirass, greaves, and cloak, holding a shield and two spears. Before him to right a chariot, with charioteer and two horses, to which a third horse is being harnessed by a nude bearded man, while a second, clad in a white tunic, stands beside the horses. Facing them a warrior and an archer, the former wearing a Corinthian helmet, cloak and greaves, holding a shiled (device two dolphins) and two spears points downwards. The archer, who is almost entirely concealed by the warrior, wears a Phrygian cap and holds a bow and arrows. Behind them an old man wrapped in a mantle, holding a spear.

Above the design one purple stripe and two below. Added purple on the cloaks, greaves, shield rim, hair, beards, horses' manes and harness; added white on the crests of the helmets, shield device, man's tunic, and old man's hair. Fine careful incisions and execution good. The horses are especially well done.

On neck, rays pointing upwards with rosette below. On shoulder, palmette cable. Mouth and base covered with a poor black glaze, badly worn.Foot restored in plaster.

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)

Verification Level

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