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NM Ant 2175 :: lekythos

Object description: White-ground lekythos. Cup mouth; narrow neck; sloping shoulder; vertical band handle from neck to shoulder; cylindrical body, tapering downwards; disc base with concave edge. Light red clay; black glaze, overfired; added white. Mouth painted except top; on shoulder one row of bars and one of rays; outside of handle and edges on neck painted; on body an ivy branch between meander bands; further below a lattice band; lower body and base top painted except four reserved bands.

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Inventory number

NM Ant 2175

Serie nummer

1047

Object

lekythos

Material

Earthenware; Clay; Pottery

Material, Swedish

Keramik

Exhibitions

konservering, RAÄ, ATm

Acquisition

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

Description

White-ground lekythos. Cup mouth; narrow neck; sloping shoulder; vertical band handle from neck to shoulder; cylindrical body, tapering downwards; disc base with concave edge. Light red clay; black glaze, overfired; added white. Mouth painted except top; on shoulder one row of bars and one of rays; outside of handle and edges on neck painted; on body an ivy branch between meander bands; further below a lattice band; lower body and base top painted except four reserved bands.

Time - Manufacturing, earliest