Mourning
- Title
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Mourning
- Repository
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British Museum
- Alternative
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Lekythos
Vase D71
- Creator
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Group R
- Photographer
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Lowenstam, Steven
- Creator Display
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attributed to Group R (Attic vase painters, active late 5th century BCE)
- Description
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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
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Front
- Coverage
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Attica, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece (creation)
- Temporal
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ca. 420-400 BCE
- Subject
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Pottery V
Red Figure
Red Figure, White, Animal
White Ground Lekythoi
- 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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-0420/-0400
- View Date
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1985-09
- Identifier
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Lowenstam_VRC_06374
- Item Locator
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Box 14, Section 17
- 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: 50.8 cm
- Material
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pottery | painted
- 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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1852,0302.1