Fragmentary white-ground lekythos: youth at a tomb
Fragmentary white-ground lekythos: youth at a tomb
Fragmentary white-ground lekythos: youth at a tomb
Fragmentary white-ground lekythos: youth at a tomb
Fragmentary white-ground lekythos: youth at a tomb
Fragmentary white-ground lekythos: youth at a tomb
Fragmentary white-ground lekythos: youth at a tomb
Fragmentary white-ground lekythos: youth at a tomb
Fragmentary white-ground lekythos: youth at a tomb
Fragmentary white-ground lekythos: youth at a tomb
Fragmentary white-ground lekythos: youth at a tomb
Fragmentary white-ground lekythos: youth at a tomb

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Ancient Mediterranean Art

Fragmentary white-ground lekythos: youth at a tomb,

ca. 420–410 BCE

attributed to the Reed Painter
Greek, Attic
y1962-186

Information

Title
Fragmentary white-ground lekythos: youth at a tomb
Dates

ca. 420–410 BCE

Maker
attributed to the Reed Painter
Medium
Ceramic
Dimensions
h. 28.5 cm, diam. 12.0 cm (11 1/4 x 4 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Edward Sampson, Class of 1914, for the Alden Sampson Collection
Object Number
y1962-186
Culture
Attic
Period
White-ground
Type
lekythoi, fragments, ceramics
Materials
glaze, slip, ceramic
Subject
figures (representations), tombs, stelae, chlamyses, himations, women, petasuses, youth

Given to the Museum by Edward Sampson

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