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NM Ant 0920 :: lekythos

Object description: Deep chimney mouth; moulding at base of mouth; narrow neck; almost flat shoulder; vertical band handle from neck to shoulder; cylindrical body, tapering downwards; disc base in two degrees. Red clay; black to brown glaze. Inside and outside of mouth painted; on shoulder one row of bars and one of rays; outside of handle painted; right below shoulder on one side of body double row of dots between narrow bands; on body a quadriga (?) with charioteer, two other figures (one of these partly erased) standing behind the horses and a seated figure holding a staff (?) in front of the horses – incisions; below figured scene two rows of dots between narrow bands; below this two groups of wet-incised lines; lower body, base top and lower edge of base painted.

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Inventory number

NM Ant 0920

Serie nummer

1013

Object

lekythos

Object, Swedish

lekyt; kärl

Country - Findspot

Greece : Europe

Place - Findspot

Corinth [?]

Material

Earthenware; Clay; Pottery

Material, Swedish

Keramik

Acquisition

Purchased in Greece in 1881 through the Swedish and Norwegian Consul at Piraeus, Mr. M. N. Rodocanachi.

Description

Deep chimney mouth; moulding at base of mouth; narrow neck; almost flat shoulder; vertical band handle from neck to shoulder; cylindrical body, tapering downwards; disc base in two degrees. Red clay; black to brown glaze. Inside and outside of mouth painted; on shoulder one row of bars and one of rays; outside of handle painted; right below shoulder on one side of body double row of dots between narrow bands; on body a quadriga (?) with charioteer, two other figures (one of these partly erased) standing behind the horses and a seated figure holding a staff (?) in front of the horses – incisions; below figured scene two rows of dots between narrow bands; below this two groups of wet-incised lines; lower body, base top and lower edge of base painted.

Time - Manufacturing, earliest