Libation
- Title
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Libation
- Repository
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British Museum
- Alternative
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Lekythos
Vase D25
- Creator
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unknown
- Photographer
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Lowenstam, Steven
- Creator Display
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unknown Ancient Greek (vase painter)
- Description
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Pottery: White-ground lekythos. Sacrifice. On the right is an altar of rough outline, as if of hewn stone, from which flames arise. On the left stands a bearded, wreathed man (a priest ?) in an himation, leaning forward against a staff, and holding out in his right over the flames a phiale; in his left he holds a sprig of myrtle, probably for lustration (purification). Above hang a lock of hair and a wreath, probably votive. The vase has received a blow while the clay was soft, which has left a vertical indentation in the centre of the design. Early fine period. Drawing in black outline; hair and staff, black silhouette; dress, pink, with folds in brown. Eye in profile. Above, a strip, closed at each end, of maeander, with two white cross squares, on white. On shoulder, a pattern of five palmettes, black on 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
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Front
- Coverage
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Attica, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece (creation)
- Temporal
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470-460 BCE
- Subject
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Book 6 Parallels
Iliad Book 2-16
- Style Period
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White-ground
Attic (Mainland Greek pottery styles)
- Work Type
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lekythoi
- Date
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-0470/-0460
- Identifier
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Lowenstam_VRC_00702
- Item Locator
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Box 2, Section 13
- Rights
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In Copyright
- Dc Rights Holder
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University of Oregon, Department of Classics
- Local Collection Name
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Steven Lowenstam Collection
- Type
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Image
- Format
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image/tiff
- Measurements
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Height: 32.5 cm
- Material
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pottery
- Set
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Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology
- Primary Set
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Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology
- Institution
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University of Oregon
- Cultural Context
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Attic (culture)
- Id Current Repository
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1978,0106.1