NM Ant 2108
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lekythos
- Object description
- White-ground lekythos. Deep cup mouth; narrow neck with concave profile; moulding around neck top and at junction between neck and shoulder; tapering shoulder, sharply set off from body; vertical, sliced handle from neck to shoulder; cylindrical body, tapering towards base; ridge encircling junction between body and base; disc base with groove around upper edge; concave bottom, central nipple. Red clay; red ochre wash; black glaze; semilustrous, whitish slip; matt, red, brown and black paint. Inside and outside of mouth (except top), handle, lower body and base top black; shoulder and most part of body white; on junction between neck and shoulder ovoli between black lines; on shoulder three black palmette fans and scrolls; on one side of body, right below shoulder, meander pattern between double lines; on body opposite handle a grave stele (largely erased) and, to the left, a woman draped in a red himation, bringing a bombylios; on the right side of the stele another woman (only head, upper body and feet still visible) is holding her left hand on her head in a gesture of mourning, her other hand is pointed towards the stele.
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