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Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)
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Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)

Red-figure Attributed to the Carlsruhe Painter · Lekythos · ca. 460–450 BCE
Lekythos. Greek, Attic. Classical. Classification: Vases. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1906. Gallery 171.

Attribution History

Current
Met Museum catalogue
Attributed: Attributed to the Carlsruhe Painter
Source: met_import

Depicted Scenes

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Nike
Mythology

Bibliography

3 references
Books & Monographs
Fernandez, C.S. and Garcia, J.T. (eds.), La cerámica ática fuera del Ática, contextos, usos y miradas, Studia Archaeologica 256 (Rome, 2023) (2023) — 242, FIG.1 (BD)
Oakley, J., Picturing Death in Classical Athens, The Evidence of the White Lekythoi (Cambridge, 2004) (2004) — COLOUR PLATE 3A
Catalogues & Reference Works
Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963) (1963) — 734.93

Provenance

2 recorded events
Discovery
Eretria, Euboea, Greece
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First recorded
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Current location
Shape
Lekythos
Technique
Red-figure
Period
Classical
Date
ca. 460–450 BCE
Culture
Greek, Attic
Painter
Attributed to the Carlsruhe Painter
Attribution
Attributed
Findspot
Eretria, Euboea, Greece
Museum
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Accession Number
06.1021.129
Image Source
met_cc0
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