Attic Red-Figure Lekythos Fragment

Seven fragments joined into one section to give part of the shoulder and body.

Shoulder reserved, with two of five black six-petal palmettes with black hearts preserved. Tendrils linking palmettes apparently without spirals. Above the picture on the body, from left to right, three broken stopped meanders to right, blackened cross-square, three broken stopped meanders to left, blackened cross-square, two broken stopped meanders to left.

On the body, youth and child. At left, a Doric column (echinus adorned with two black dots; at the top of the column, a row of black dots between two plain bands). A youth, with a himation over his left shoulder, stands in profile to right, leaning forward slightly. He extends his right arm toward a small child. Only the very top of the child’s blond head is visible.

(Adapted from R. Neer, CVA Malibu 7, 1997).