NM Ant 1699
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lekythos
- Object description
- White-ground lekythos. Small cup mouth; splaying neck; sloping shoulder, sharply set off from body; sliced handle from neck to shoulder; cylindrical body, tapering downwards; disc base with sloping edge; concave bottom. Red clay; red ochre wash; white slip; black glaze; added red. Inside and outside of mouth (top excluded), neck, outside of handle, lower body and base top black; shoulder reserved with vertical bars between thin lines and five black palmette fans and tendrils with buds and dots; on body (right below shoulder) double row of dots between bands and large frieze on white ground: three dancing satyrs (the one in the centre playing the double pipe), ivy branches, a cornucopia and a large, pointed amphora - added red and incised lines marking details; two, superimposed, red bands below frieze.
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