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Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)

Red-figure Attributed to the Achilles Painter · Lekythos · ca. 440 BCE

Lekythos. Greek, Attic. Classical. Classification: Vases. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1908. Gallery 159.

Attribution History

Current

Met Museum catalogue

Attributed: Attributed to the Achilles Painter

Source: met_import

Bibliography

7 references

Books & Monographs

Arrington, N.T., Ashes, Images and Memories, The Presence of the War Dead in Fifth-Century Athens (Oxford, 2015) (2015) — 263, FIG.7.19 (BD)

Tzachou-Alexandri, O., Leukes Likythoi tou Zoographou tou Achilleos sto Ethniko Archaiologiko Mouseio (Athens, 1998) (1998) — 76, FIG.13 (BD)

Oakley, J.H., The Achilles Painter (Mainz, 1997) (1997) — PL.129A (PART)

Fairbanks, A., Athenian Lekythoi (New York, 1914) (1914) — II, PL.25.2

Catalogues & Reference Works

Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971) (1971) — 438

Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963) (1963) — 999.180

Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925) (1925) — 377.6

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. 440 BCE

Culture

Greek, Attic

Painter

Attributed to the Achilles Painter

Attribution

Attributed

Findspot

Eretria, Euboea, Greece

Museum

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Accession Number

08.258.18

Image Source

met_cc0

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