Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)

Said to have been found in 1872 in Athens

March 1872, said to have been excavated in Athens (in the Kerameikos?); briefly, with Professor Athanasios Sergiou Rhousopoulos, Athens; by 1874, purchased by Samuel G. Ward from Prof. A.S. Rhousopoulos, Athens; acquired 1875, gift of Samuel G. Ward.

Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1875. Fifth Annual Report of the Trustees of the Association for the Year ending May 1, 1875. p. 70, New York.

Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1881. Twelfth Annual Report of the Trustees of the Association for eight months ending December 31, 1881. p. 70, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1895. The Terracottas and Pottery of the Cesnola Collection of Cypriote Antiquities in Halls 4 and 15. no. 1766, p. 131, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Richter, Gisela M. A., Marjorie J. Milne, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1922. Shapes of Greek Vases. p. 25, New York.

Richter, Gisela M. A. and Marjorie J. Milne. 1935. Shapes and Names of Athenian Vases. p. 15, fig. 92, New York: Plantin Press.

Haspels, Caroline Henriette Emilie. 1936. Attic Black-Figured Lekythoi. no. 1, pp. 5, 25, 194, pl. 8,1, Paris: E. de Boccard.

Richter, Gisela M. A. 1953. Handbook of the Greek Collection. p. 157, n. 22, pl. 37g, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.

Beazley, John D. 1956. Attic Black-figure Vase-painters. p. 698, Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Beazley, John D. 1971. Paralipomena: Additions to Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters and to Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters [2nd edition]. p. 199, Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Folsom, Robert. 1975. Attic Black-Figured Pottery. pl. 4c, Park Ridge, N.J.: Noyes Press.

Pinney, Gloria Ferrari and Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway. 1979. Aspects of Ancient Greece no. 13, pp. 32–3, Allentown, Penn.: Allentown Art Museum.