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White-Ground Lekythos with Tomb Scene 450 - 400 BC

Part of Elgin Collection, Broomhall House, Scotland, before 1965.
LEKYTHOS
THROWING, MODELING
White-Ground (pottery), Attic (pottery)
TERRACOTTA
Standard 242 x 75 Millimetres
65.003
Description: This white ground funerary lekythos is the standard cylinder shape with an echinus mouth, narrow neck, flat shoulder and straight sided body which gently curves at the bottom to meet the disc foot. The flat strap handle passes up the side of the neck and down on to the edge of the shoulder. The main figured scene occupies the body of the vase; it shows a girl carrying a basket of ribbons or fillets approaching a simple funerary stele from the left and the vestiges of another figure to the right of the stele. The figures are painted in matt pink or red-brown on a white ground. Other colours are black and the red of the clay. Much of the painted decoration has faded due to the lack of durability of the colours and of the white ground which tends to flake. The lip is chipped near the handle. Function: White ground lekythoi with funerary scenes were made for funerary purposes, to hold oil for pouring libations or to be used as funerary offerings. Decoration: a) The mouth and neck are streaky black on the outside with red showing through and the top of the lip reserved. b) The strap handle is painted black on its outer surface with some black on the inner surface as well. c) The shoulder has matt pink scrolls on a white ground. d) There is a running meander pattern in pink just below the shoulder, above the figured scene on the body of the vase. A girl, shown in profile, facing right, dressed in a red brown garment approaches a simple stele on a base with two straight sided steps. She holds a basket of ribbons or fillets on her head with her left hand while her right hand is stretched out towards the stele. To the right of the stele the feet, the hair and outstretched hands of another female (?) figure can be discerned. e) There is a reserved line below the figured scene and the lower part of the body of the vase where it curves down to the foot is painted streaky black with some red showing through in places. f) The top of the foot is black with some streaky red; there are two reserved rings where the foot joins the body and the outside of the disc is reserved with an incised ring around its top.
Purchased from Münzen und Medaillen A.G, Basel,1965.


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