Libation
- Title
- Libation
- Repository
- British Museum
- Alternative
- Lekythos Vase D25
- Creator
- unknown
- Photographer
- Lowenstam, Steven
- Creator Display
- unknown Ancient Greek (vase painter)
- Description
- 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
- Front
- Coverage
- Attica, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece (creation)
- Temporal
- 470-460 BCE
- Subject
- Book 6 Parallels Iliad Book 2-16
- Style Period
- White-ground Attic (Mainland Greek pottery styles)
- Work Type
- lekythoi
- Date
- -0470/-0460
- Identifier
- Lowenstam_VRC_00702
- Item Locator
- Box 2, Section 13
- 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: 32.5 cm
- Material
- pottery
- 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
- 1978,0106.1