Mourning

Title: Mourning
Repository: British Museum
Alternative: Lekythos Vase D71
Creator: Group R
Photographer: Lowenstam, Steven
Creator Display: attributed to Group R (Attic vase painters, active late 5th century BCE)
Description: Pottery: White-ground lekythos (oil-flask). Offerings at a tomb. In the centre is a broad shaft on a double plinth, surmounted by a double moulding, from the centre of which rises a small tapering stele with a triangular top. Both shaft and stele are encircled with taeniae. On the right of the stele, resting on the shaft, are a large prothesis-vase and an alabastron; on the left an alabastron, beside which hangs in the background a strigil. On each side hangs from the upper border a festooned taenia. In the foreground on the upper plinth is seated to right a woman with arms folded (representing the deceased), looking round to left; she wears a long chiton, himation around her legs, sandals, and a necklace of beads. On right a woman in a long chiton advances, holding in her left a basket containing taeniae, and with her right places on the upper plinth a large lekythos which she holds by the lip. On left, a figure, the drawing of whose body is almost entirely worn away, is seated on a tumulus on raised ground, with left hand on knees, and feet resting on the lower plinth. Late fine style. Red outline, hair in red wash with details red; chiton on left, border of himation in centre, and taeniae, red silhouette; prothesis-vase, shoulder and foot of lekythos, and some of the taeniae, black; himation in centre blue; chiton on right and some of the taeniae, green; necklace, orange-yellow. Most of the colour was added after firing, and much of it has not survived. The two faces which are preserved are in three-quarter face, and the lower eyelashes are drawn in. Above, the usual ornaments, black on a white ground; the alternate petals of the palmettes are red. --The British Museum Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893
View: Front
Coverage: Attica, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece (creation)
Temporal: ca. 420-400 BCE
Subject: Pottery V Red Figure Red Figure, White, Animal White Ground Lekythoi
Style Period: White-ground Attic (Mainland Greek pottery styles)
Work Type: lekythoi
Date: -0420/-0400
View Date: 1985-09
Identifier: Lowenstam_VRC_06374
Item Locator: Box 14, Section 17
Rights: In Copyright
Dc Rights Holder: University of Oregon, Department of Classics
Local Collection Name: Steven Lowenstam Collection
Type: Image
Format: image/tiff
Measurements: Height: 50.8 cm
Material: pottery | painted
Set: Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology
Primary Set: Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology
Institution: University of Oregon
Cultural Context: Attic (culture)
Id Current Repository: 1852,0302.1