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 Icarus Painter · Lekythos · 2nd quarter of the 5th century BCE
Lekythos. Greek, Attic. Classical. Classification: Vases. Credit: Fletcher Fund, 1924. Gallery 171.

Attribution History

Current
Met Museum catalogue
Source: met_import

Bibliography

6 references
Books & Monographs
Girard, T., L'oblique dans le monde grec (Oxford, 2015) (2015) — 97, FIG.64 (BD)
Avramidou, A. and Demetriou, D. (eds.), Approaching the Ancient Artifact, Representation, Narrative, and Function. A Festschrift in Honor of H. Alan Shapiro (Berlin and Boston, 2014) (2014) — 28, FIG.4 (BD)
Colpo, I. and Ghedini, F. (eds.), Il gran poema delle passioni e delle meraviglie, Ovidio e il repertorio letterario e figurativo fra antico e riscoperta dell'antico, Atti del convegno (Padova, 15-17 settembre 2011) (Padova, 2012) (2011) — 281, FIG.2 (BD)
Haspels, C.H.E., Attic Black-figured Lekythoi (Paris, 1936) (1936) — 270.1
Catalogues & Reference Works
Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989) (1989) — 280
Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963) (1963) — 696.1, 1666

Provenance

2 recorded events
Discovery
Greece
bapd
First recorded
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Current location
Shape
Technique
Period
Classical
Date
2nd quarter of the 5th century BCE
Culture
Greek, Attic
Attribution
Attributed
Findspot
Greece
Museum
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Accession Number
24.97.37
Image Source
met_cc0
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