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Terracotta squat lekythos (oil flask)

Red-figure Attributed to the manner of the Meidias Painter · Lekythos · ca. 410 BCE

Squat lekythos. Greek, Attic. Classical. Classification: Vases. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1911. Gallery 159.

Attribution History

Current

Met Museum catalogue

Attributed: Attributed to the manner of the Meidias Painter

Source: met_import

Depicted Scenes

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Eros

Mythology

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Aphrodite

Mythology

Bibliography

6 references

Catalogues & Reference Works

Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989) (1989) — 364

Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963) (1963) — 1324.47

Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925) (1925) — 461.22

Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VII, PL.348, POMPE I (PART)

Books & Monographs

Smith, A.C., Polis and Personification in Classical Athenian Art (Leiden, 2011) (2011) — FIG.8.5 (BD)

Rosenzweig, R., Worshipping Aphrodite, Art and Cult in Classical Athens (Ann Arbor, 2004) (2004) — FIG.8A-C (BD)

Shape

Lekythos

Technique

Red-figure

Period

Classical

Date

ca. 410 BCE

Culture

Greek, Attic

Painter

Attributed to the manner of the Meidias Painter

Attribution

Attributed

Museum

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Accession Number

11.213.2

Image Source

met_cc0

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