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Lekythos (oil vessel) depicting two women,
ca. 450–440 BCE
attributed to the Achilles Painter
Greek, Attic
Classical Period, ca. 480–323 BCE
y1964-108 a-c
Information
Title
Lekythos (oil vessel) depicting two women
Dates
ca. 450–440 BCE
Maker
attributed to the Achilles Painter
Medium
White-ground ceramic
Dimensions
h. 32.0 cm, diam. 11.4 cm (12 5/8 x 4 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Edward Sampson, Class of 1914, for the Alden Sampson Collection
Object Number
y1964-108 a-c
Place Made
Europe, Greece, Athens
Inscription
Kalos inscription at top; name obliterated except for the initial "K" and a few traces of other letters (fifth letter probably "A" or "[lambda]". [See accession card for reproduction];
Culture
Period
Given to the Museum by Edward Sampson
- Arthur Fairbanks, Athenian lekythoi, with outline drawing in glaze varnish on a white ground, (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1907). , p. 218; cat. no. 39
- "Acquisitions of 1964", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 24, no. 1 (1965): p. 20-23., p. 23
- Joan R. Mertens, Attic white-ground: its development on shapes other than Lekythoi, (New York: Garland Press, 1997)., p. 210 and note 54
- Allen Rosenbaum and Francis F. Jones, Selections from The Art Museum, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1986), p. 29 (illus.)
- John Howard Oakley, The Achilles Painter, (Mainz: P. von Zabern, 1997)., 133, pl. 84C, no. 142
