black-glaze lekythos / Ceramic / Glaze / Slip

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Record Details

Object Identifier: 0000.00.2596
Object Name: black-glaze lekythos
Lot: Marburg Collection
Collections: Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
Object Type: Pottery
Materials: Ceramic; Glaze; Slip
Design Style: Attic Black Figure
Length: ;
Width: 9.0;
Height: 19.1;
Thickness: ;
Weight: ;304g
Pierced: no
Inscribed: no
Full Artifact Description: Piece of lip gone. Accessory colors gone leaving glaze beneath dull. Edge and underside of foot reserved. Tongues and a bud chain on shoulder. Banquet of Dionysos: god reclines on a couch, table with food in front. Himation wrapped around his lower body and over left shoulder. Dancing maenad on each side. Ivy branches in field. Maenads’ flesh is applied white. Applied red or white dots on maenads garments and on headdress and himation of Dionysos; scrolls and stripes on couch legs; careless bands across table; ivy branches. Applied red; fillets of maenads; stripe at top of black band on which figures stand. Incisions.; Lekythos showing banquet with Dionysos/Herkales? and dancers. Clay.
Subjects: Dionysos reclining, maenads
Verbatim Date: End of 6th C BC
Verbatim Provenance: Greece?
Production Site: site
Countermark: no
Exhibition Title: Case 07 - Greek World
Exhibition Curator: Talalay, Lauren; Herbert, Sharon C.
Exhibition Year: 2009
Publication Title: Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum
Publication Author: Van Ingen, Wilhelmina
Publication Year: 1933
Type Category: Ceramic

Technical Details

Collection: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection
Record: 0000.00.2596
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.2596/0000_00_2596p01.tif

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Full citation: "black-glaze lekythos; Ceramic; Glaze; Slip." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.2596/0000_00_2596p01.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 19, 2024.