Attic White-Ground Lekythos

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Attic White-Ground Lekythos

Creator

Tymbos Painter

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The Tymbos Painter specialized in decorating lekythoi in the white-ground technique. In the period around 460 B.C., when he worked in Athens, white-ground lekythoi were used almost exclusively as funerary offerings; the scenes he chose for his vases tended to reflect this function. The Tymbos Painter was not a good draftsman and he was often hasty, as the carelessly drawn bars that cover the shoul

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Date
about 460 B.C.
Medium
Terracotta
Culture
Greek (Attic)
Department
Vessels
Institution
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White lekythos (Class ATL). Youth in chlamys and petasos with drawn sword, striding to right. Above, band of running leftward meander. Inscription "Euaion kalos Aischylo".

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