Lekythos

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Inventory number

ΝΑ 1957 ΝΑΚ 456

Artist

Attic workshop

Category

Vessel

Period

Protogeometric Period

Date

980-960 BC

Dimensions

Height: 0.105 m
Rim diameter: 0.048 m
Base diameter: 0.048 m

Material

Clay

Location

Gallery of the Acropolis Slopes, Case 1, No 32

Description
Bibliography

Almost intact lekythos found in 1957 at a cemetery on the south slope of the Acropolis. It comes from Burial's XL-22 fill and was offered, along with three more vessels, as a burial offering to the second of the two deceased, who was placed later in the grave.

Its ring-shaped base is high, the body globular, the neck cylindrical with markedly outturned rim and the handle vertical. The decoration is largely worn today. Semi-circles adorn the shoulder and horizontal bands the body and neck. The lowest part of the pot is covered in black paint.

Χαριτωνίδης, Σ.Ι., «Ευρήματα Πρωτογεωμετρικής και Γεωμετρικής εποχής της ανασκαφής νοτίως της Ακροπόλεως», Αρχαιολογικόν Δελτίον 28, 1973, σελ. 33, πίν. 21ε, αρ. κατ. ΓΜ 94
Papadopoulos, J., Smithson, E., The early iron age. The cemeteries, The Athenian Agora XXXVI, 2017, σελ. 747 υποσημ. 348