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MM 1962:011 :: lekanis

Object description: Lekanis with lid. Bowl with a recess for the lid and two heavy bandhandles placed horizontally. Bowl is carinated and slopes towards broad ringbase. Lip has a broad edge and a sloping wall towards the profiled and stemmed knob. On the flat surface of the know is a depression. The bowl is decorated with a stylized palmette pattern between handles. Otherwise black glazed apart from a reserved area on ringbase. Lid has a stylized ovolo pattern on vertical part and a figured scene on sloping upper side superposed by a reserved area around know filled with dots in diluted paint. Knob is black on the edges but has a ovolo pattern around central depression. The figured scene shows four women and and erote. the erote is turned towards the right carrying a fan. the first woman sits on an alter turned to the left with an object in her right hand and the left raised, the next woman is moving towards the right looking back and carrying a ches and a patterned textile in her right hand, an alabastron and a band in her left. The third woman also sits on an altar turning her face to the right raising her left arm. the last woman moves towards the right and looks back; she carries a chest, a floral band and a broader textile band in her right, an alabastron, a flower band and a textile band in her left. Alle woman wears chitons. The scene might allude to a weeding scene.

Data elements
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Inventory number

MM 1962:011

Serie nummer

4339

Object

lekanis

Country - Origin

Italy : Europe

Material

Pottery; Earthenware; Clay

Material, Swedish

Keramik; Lera; Keramik

Acquisition

Purchased by Margareta Jacobsson, Banérgatan 63, Stockholm. Donated by Mrs Hellner to the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, from where it was transferred to the Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities.

Description

Lekanis with lid. Bowl with a recess for the lid and two heavy bandhandles placed horizontally. Bowl is carinated and slopes towards broad ringbase. Lip has a broad edge and a sloping wall towards the profiled and stemmed knob. On the flat surface of the know is a depression. The bowl is decorated with a stylized palmette pattern between handles. Otherwise black glazed apart from a reserved area on ringbase. Lid has a stylized ovolo pattern on vertical part and a figured scene on sloping upper side superposed by a reserved area around know filled with dots in diluted paint. Knob is black on the edges but has a ovolo pattern around central depression. The figured scene shows four women and and erote. the erote is turned towards the right carrying a fan. the first woman sits on an alter turned to the left with an object in her right hand and the left raised, the next woman is moving towards the right looking back and carrying a ches and a patterned textile in her right hand, an alabastron and a band in her left. The third woman also sits on an altar turning her face to the right raising her left arm. the last woman moves towards the right and looks back; she carries a chest, a floral band and a broader textile band in her right, an alabastron, a flower band and a textile band in her left. Alle woman wears chitons. The scene might allude to a weeding scene.

Time - Manufacturing, earliest

4th century BC

Exhibition - Current

Study Gallery

Description: Upstairs, in interaction with the Baghdad Cafe, opened in February 2009, the upper gallery. A rich variety of objects retrieved from the museum's storerooms, many of them shown for the first time. A series of booths filled to the brim with beautiful vases functions as a traditional study collection of ancient ceramics. Other booths highlights the thematic elements of the ancient world: the subject of everyday and festive, and images of gods, humans and animals. (www.medelhavsmuseet.se, 2009-07-13, google translate).
Time - Start: 2009-022009-02

Exhibition, Part of - Current