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NM Ant 1258 :: lekythos

Object description: White-ground lekythos. Concave shoulder; body curving in slightly below angle between shoulder and body, tapering towards base; disc base in two degrees. Light red clay; black glaze; added white and red. On shoulder one row of bars and one of rays; on body right below shoulder a black band, a meander to the right and one black band between two red ones; below this a broad panel with a pattern of dotted lozenges in black and white, framed by red bands and triple zigzag lines; back side of body white; lower body and base top black; two groups of superimposed, white bands on lower body; lower part of base edge black.

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Inventory number

NM Ant 1258

Serie nummer

1030

Object

lekythos

Country - Findspot

Greece : Europe

Country, Swedish - Findspot

Grekland

Region - Findspot

Attica

Material

Earthenware; Clay; Pottery

Material, Swedish

Keramik

Acquisition

Deposited in 1887 by the Technical School, Stockholm, in the National Museum.

Description

White-ground lekythos. Concave shoulder; body curving in slightly below angle between shoulder and body, tapering towards base; disc base in two degrees. Light red clay; black glaze; added white and red. On shoulder one row of bars and one of rays; on body right below shoulder a black band, a meander to the right and one black band between two red ones; below this a broad panel with a pattern of dotted lozenges in black and white, framed by red bands and triple zigzag lines; back side of body white; lower body and base top black; two groups of superimposed, white bands on lower body; lower part of base edge black.

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