Vases Red-figure Lekythos Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)
Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)
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Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)

Red-figure Attributed to the Diosphos Painter · Lekythos · ca. 500 BCE
Lekythos. Greek, Attic. Archaic. Classification: Vases. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1906. Gallery 154.

Attribution History

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Bibliography

20 references
Catalogues & Reference Works
Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989) (1989) — 212
Burn, L. and Glynn, R., Beazley Addenda (Oxford, 1982) (1982) — 105
Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963) (1963) — 301.3, 303.2, 1643
Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, 1st ed. (Oxford, 1942) (1942) — 203.2
Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae — IV, PL.184, GORGO, GORGONES 309
Books & Monographs
Schertz, P. and Stribling, N. (eds.), The Horse in Ancient Greek Art, National Sporting Library & Museum Middleburg, Virginia (Middleburg and Richmond, 2017) (2017) — 25, FIG.19 (COLOUR OF BD)
Girard, T., L'oblique dans le monde grec (Oxford, 2015) (2015) — 87, FIG.46 (PARTS OF BD)
Cohen, B. (ed.), The Colours of Clay, Special Techniques in Athenian Vases (Los Angeles, 2006) (2006) — 209-210, NO.56 (COLOUR OF PARTS)
Robertson, C.M., The art of vase-painting in classical Athens (Cambridge, 1992) (1992) — 131, FIG.134 (PART)
Immerwahr, H., Attic Script, A Survey (Oxford, 1990) (1990) — PL.25.108 (PART)
Schefold, K. and Jung, F., Die Urkönige, Perseus, Bellerophon, Herakles und Theseus in der klassischen und hellenistischen Kunst (Munich, 1988) (1988) — 102, FIG.123
Yalouris, N., Pegasus, The Art of the Legend (1977) (1977) — FIG.27
Mertens, J., Attic White Ground, its development on shapes other than lekythoi (New York, 1977) (1977) — PL.36.3 (BODY)
Kurtz, D., Athenian White Lekythoi (Oxford, 1975) (1975) — PL.59.2
Haspels, C.H.E., Attic Black-figured Lekythoi (Paris, 1936) (1936) — 235.71
Jacobsthal, P., Ornamente Griechischer Vasen (Berlin, 1927) (1927) — PL.53.B-C
Richter, G., Handbook of the Classical Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 1917) (1917) — 129, FIG.85
Fairbanks, A., Athenian Lekythoi (New York, 1914) (1914) — I, PL.4
Journal Articles
Ktema (1986) — 11 (1986) PL.4.7 (DRAWING OF PART)
Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (1907) — 2 (1907) 82-3
Shape
Technique
Period
Archaic
Date
ca. 500 BCE
Culture
Greek, Attic
Attribution
Attributed
Museum
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Accession Number
06.1070
Image Source
met_cc0
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