Squat lekythos (oil vessel) depicting Triptolemos, Demeter, and Persephone
Squat lekythos (oil vessel) depicting Triptolemos, Demeter, and Persephone
Squat lekythos (oil vessel) depicting Triptolemos, Demeter, and Persephone
Squat lekythos (oil vessel) depicting Triptolemos, Demeter, and Persephone
Squat lekythos (oil vessel) depicting Triptolemos, Demeter, and Persephone
Squat lekythos (oil vessel) depicting Triptolemos, Demeter, and Persephone
Squat lekythos (oil vessel) depicting Triptolemos, Demeter, and Persephone
Squat lekythos (oil vessel) depicting Triptolemos, Demeter, and Persephone
Squat lekythos (oil vessel) depicting Triptolemos, Demeter, and Persephone
Squat lekythos (oil vessel) depicting Triptolemos, Demeter, and Persephone
Squat lekythos (oil vessel) depicting Triptolemos, Demeter, and Persephone
Squat lekythos (oil vessel) depicting Triptolemos, Demeter, and Persephone
Squat lekythos (oil vessel) depicting Triptolemos, Demeter, and Persephone
Squat lekythos (oil vessel) depicting Triptolemos, Demeter, and Persephone
Squat lekythos (oil vessel) depicting Triptolemos, Demeter, and Persephone
Squat lekythos (oil vessel) depicting Triptolemos, Demeter, and Persephone
Squat lekythos (oil vessel) depicting Triptolemos, Demeter, and Persephone
Squat lekythos (oil vessel) depicting Triptolemos, Demeter, and Persephone

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Squat lekythos (oil vessel) depicting Triptolemos, Demeter, and Persephone,

ca. 375–350 BCE

Greek, Attic
Classical Period, ca. 480–323 BCE
2005-66

Information

Title
Squat lekythos (oil vessel) depicting Triptolemos, Demeter, and Persephone
Dates

ca. 375–350 BCE

Medium
Red-figure ceramic with molded-clay reliefs
Dimensions
12.4 x 7.0 cm (4 7/8 x 2 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Carl Otto von Kienbusch Jr., Memorial Collection Fund
Object Number
2005-66
Place Made

Europe, Greece, Athens

Culture
Attic
Period
Classical, Red-figure
Type
squat lekythoi, ceramics, reliefs
Materials
ceramic
Subject
palmettes, figures (representations), rosettes, running ornament, deities, stripes, men, mythology, scepters, peploses, women, poloi, chariots (ancient vehicles)

Formerly in the collections of Jacob Hirsch and Erwin Oppenländer (1901-1988), purchased from Forge & Lynch, ltd. St. James, London, in 2005.

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