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Attic Red-Figure Lekythos Fragment

Date

470–460 B.C.

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Greek (Attic)

Department

Vessels

Institution

Getty Museum

Seven fragments joined into one section to give part of the shoulder and body. Shoulder reserved, with two of five black six-petal palmettes with black hearts preserved. Tendrils linking palmettes apparently without spirals. Above the picture on the body, from left to right, three broken stopped meanders to right, blackened cross-square, three broken stopped meanders to left, blackened cross-square, two broken stopped meanders to left. On the body, youth and child. At left, a Doric column (echinus adorned with two black dots; at the top of the column, a row of black dots between two plain bands). A youth, with a himation over his left shoulder, stands in profile to right, leaning forward slightly. He extends his right arm toward a small child. Only the very top of the child’s blond head is visible. (Adapted from R. Neer, CVA Malibu 7, 1997).

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