Lekythos

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Inventory number

ΝΑ 1957 ΝΑΚ 464

Artist

Attic workshop

Category

Vessel

Period

Protogeometric Period

Date

960-900 BC

Dimensions

Height: 0.175 m
Body diameter: 0.12 m
Base diameter: 0.48 m

Material

Clay

Location

Gallery of the Acropolis Slopes, Case 1, No 41

Description
Bibliography

Lekythos mended of many fragments and restored. It was found in 1957 at a cemetery on the south slope of the Acropolis and comes from Burial XXVIII-M. Along with thirteen more pots, pins and clay beads, which possibly come from a necklace, it was deposited as a burial offering to the deceased.

Its base is ring-shaped, the body globular, the neck cylindrical, the rim markedly outturned and the handle vertical. The shoulder is decorated with semi-circles, hourglass ornaments and schematic branches, whereas the neck and handle are adorned with horizontal bands and lines. The rest of the surface is covered in black paint.

Χαριτωνίδης, Σ.Ι., «Ευρήματα Πρωτογεωμετρικής και Γεωμετρικής εποχής της ανασκαφής νοτίως της Ακροπόλεως», Αρχαιολογικόν Δελτίον 28, 1973, σελ. 28, πίν. 17ε, αρ. κατ. ΓΜ 76
Lemos, Ι., The protogeometric Aegean: the archaeology of the late eleventh and tenth centuries BC, Oxford, 2002, σελ. 74
Papadopoulos, J.K., «The Charitonidis Class: a group of large Athenian Late Protogeometric skyphoi», Opuscula. Annual of the Swedish Istitute at Athens and Rome 8, 2015, σελ. 11-12
Papadopoulos, J., Smithson, E., The early iron age. The cemeteries, The Athenian Agora XXXVI, 2017, σελ. 319 (T44-3), 747 υποσημ. 348, 753 υποσημ. 374