Lekythos

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Inventory number

ΝΑ 1957 ΝΑΚ 453

Artist

Attic workshop

Category

Vessel

Period

Between Sub-Mycenaean and Protogeometric Period

Date

1070-1030 BC

Dimensions

Height: 0.075 m
Rim diameter: 0.025 m
Body diameter: 0.05 m
Base diameter: 0.03 m

Material

Clay

Location

Gallery of the Acropolis Slopes, Case 1, No 31

Description
Bibliography

Almost intact small lekythos found in 1957 at a cemetery on the south slope of the Acropolis. It comes from Burial's XL-22 fill and was deposited as a burial offering to the first of the two deceased placed in the grave.

Its ring-shaped base is high, the body ovoid, the neck cylindrical with outturned rim and the handle vertical. The shoulder is adorned with curved triangles, the body and neck with a horizontal band whereas the handle with horizontal lines. The lowest part of the pot is covered in brown-black paint.

Χαριτωνίδης, Σ.Ι., «Ευρήματα Πρωτογεωμετρικής και Γεωμετρικής εποχής της ανασκαφής νοτίως της Ακροπόλεως», Αρχαιολογικόν Δελτίον 28, 1973, σελ. 34, πίν. 22β, αρ. κατ. ΓΜ 98
Papadopoulos, J., Smithson, E., The early iron age. The cemeteries, The Athenian Agora XXXVI, 2017, σελ. 283 υποσημ. 275, 747 υποσημ. 348