Currently not on view
Black-figure lekythos: man and boy having sex,
ca. 550–540 BCE
attributed to the Taleides Painter, Greek, Attic, active ca. 560-ca. 530 BCE
Greek, Attic
y1986-53
Information
Title
Black-figure lekythos: man and boy having sex
Dates
ca. 550–540 BCE
Maker
attributed to the Taleides Painter
Medium
Ceramic
Dimensions
h. 22.8 cm, diam. 6.9 cm (9 x 2 11/16 in.)
mouth: diam. 5.0 cm; foot: diam. 6.9 cm
Credit Line
Museum purchase
Object Number
y1986-53
Culture
Period
Materials
Subject
Purchased by Mr. Rouald Segal, London, from Sotheby's in 1966; purchased by the Museum in 1986.
- Irish Bronze Age, Egyptian, western asiatic, Greek, Etruscan and Roman antiquities; Islamic pottery and metalwork, (London: Sotheby's, 1966)., lot no. 115, and illustrated on plate facing p. 54
- J.D. Beazley, Paralipomena: Additions to Attic Black-figure Vase-painters and Attic Red-figure Vase-painters (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971)., p. 117
- K. Schauenburg, "EYEMEΔΩN EIMI", Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Athenische Abteilung 90 (1975): p. 97-121., p. 118, note 118 (courting scene addenda)
- K.J. Dover, Greek Homosexuality, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1978)., p. 98 and 207: B114 (Illus.)
- Ancient and Islamic glass, ancient jewellery and silver, Middle Eastern, Egyptian, Greek, Etruscan and Roman antiquities: day of sale Monday 14th July 1986, (London: Sotheby's, 1986), Lot no. 336. Sotheby's negatives: FA 28922 and FA 28924
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1986," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 46, no. 1 (1987): p. 18–52, p. 36
- Tyler Jo Smith, Komast dancers in archaic Greek art, (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2010). , p. 84; pl. 19A.
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Andrew Lear, "Ancient pedastry: an introduction", in Thomas K. Hubbard, ed., A companion to Greek and Roman sexualities, (Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2014).
, p. 108; fig. 7.4
