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Fragment of a lekythos (oil vessel) depicting a woman at an altar,
ca. 490–480 BCE
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This fragment from a lekythos, an oil bottle, preserves most of the vase’s decoration. A woman, tall and slender, stands before a stone altar. She holds a wine jug in her right hand and a branch in her left. She is dressed in a chiton and himation and wears earrings and a head-cloth, from which the curls of her hair emerge. An incense burner stands on top of the altar. The attribution to the Berlin Painter, an anonymous Attic vase-painter of the first quarter of the fifth century B.C., is based on details of the drapery and anatomy, and the distinctive ornamental ground line.
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ca. 490–480 BCE
Europe, Greece, Athens
Red-figure Lekythos Fragment: Woman at an Altar
Fragment from a Red-figure lekythos: woman standing at an altar
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- J. Michael Padgett, et. al,The Berlin Painter and his world: Athenian vase-painting in the early fifth century B.C., (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2017), cat. no. 31
