Terracotta fragment of a squat lekythos (oil flask)?
Draped woman to left, wearing a chiton and himation, with her left hand holding a bowl? and her right hand resting on a block seat or an altar?; in front of her right arm, above the block seat or altar, an unidentified object
Artwork Details
- Title: Terracotta fragment of a squat lekythos (oil flask)?
- Period: Classical
- Date: third quarter of the 5th century BCE
- Culture: Greek, Attic
- Medium: Terracotta; red-figure
- Classification: Vases
- Credit Line: Gift of Dietrich von Bothmer, Distinguished Research Curator, Greek and Roman Art, 2011
- Object Number: 2011.604.2.2009
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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