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Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)

Black-figure Attributed to the Marathon Painter · Lekythos · early 5th century BCE

Lekythos. Greek, Attic. Archaic. Classification: Vases. Credit: Gift of Samuel G. Ward, 1875.

Attribution History

Current

Met Museum catalogue

Attributed: Attributed to the Marathon Painter

Source: met_import

Depicted Scenes

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Maenads

Mythology

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Dionysos

Mythology

Bibliography

7 references

Books & Monographs

Villanueva-Puig, M-C., Menades, Recherches sur la genese iconographique du thiase feminin de Dionysos des origins a la fin de la period archaique (Paris, 2009) (2009) — 264-266, FIGS.46-48 (BD)

Moraw, S., Die Mänade in der attischen Vasenmalerei des 6. und 5. Jahrhunderts v.Chr. (Mainz, 1998) (1998) — PL.7.22 (BD)

Pelling, C. (ed.), Greek Tragedy and the Historian (Oxford, 1997) (1997) — PL.4 (PART)

Berard, C. (ed.), Images et societe en Grece ancienne, L'iconographie comme methode d'analyse, Cahiers d'Archeologie Romande 36 (Lausanne, 1987) (1987) — 92, FIG.5 (PART), 97, 100, PLS.1F, 4B (DRAWINGS OF BD)

Lissarrague, F. et al., La Cite des Images, Religion et Societe en Grece Antique (Lausanne, 1984) (1984) — 149, FIG.211

Haspels, C.H.E., Attic Black-figured Lekythoi (Paris, 1936) (1936) — 222.27

Journal Articles

Classical Antiquity (1998) — 17 (1998) 1, FIG.1 AT P.95 (PART)

Shape

Lekythos

Technique

Black-figure

Period

Archaic

Date

early 5th century BCE