Harvard Art Museums > 1925.30.23: Attic Black-figure Lekythos: Warrior's Departure Vessels Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Attic Black-figure Lekythos: Warrior's Departure , 1925.30.23,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Dec 18, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/291675. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. 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 Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. 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 This record was created from historic documentation and may not have been reviewed by a curator; it may be inaccurate or incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art at am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
