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SHM 04166:0016 :: lekythos

Object description: Out-turned, profiled rim. Narrow neck, widening towards body. Drop-shaped body with raised, profiled base. No handle. Decoration: Border of vertical, white lines encircling neck. Frieze composed by groups of two parallel, vertical, white lines flanked by shorter red-brown lines and white dots, encircling shoulder. Below the frieze is an encircling row of white and yellow dots. On body the head and neck of a winged godess wearing hair-net and ear-rings, standing on a border similar to the one on shoulder. Red border between body and base. Buff clay, black glaze.

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Inventory number

SHM 04166:0016

Serie nummer

23466

Previous ID

NM Ant 0299

Object

lekythos

Object, Swedish

lekyt; kärl

Country - Origin

Italy : Europe

Country, Swedish - Origin

Italien

Material

Earthenware; Clay; Pottery

Material, Swedish

Keramik

Acquisition

From the collection of Beskow.

Description

Out-turned, profiled rim. Narrow neck, widening towards body. Drop-shaped body with raised, profiled base. No handle. Decoration: Border of vertical, white lines encircling neck. Frieze composed by groups of two parallel, vertical, white lines flanked by shorter red-brown lines and white dots, encircling shoulder. Below the frieze is an encircling row of white and yellow dots. On body the head and neck of a winged godess wearing hair-net and ear-rings, standing on a border similar to the one on shoulder. Red border between body and base. Buff clay, black glaze.

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