Lekythos (oil flask): Visit at Tomb
c. 450-400 BCE
Artists
Description
On the shoulder: three connected palmettes in reddish brown. On the body: In the center, there is gravestone on a two-stepped platform with a simplified Doric top. There are two fillets tied around the middle and base. A child with curly hair approaches from the left, holding up a mirror in her left hand; her clothing has worn off entirely. On the right there is a woman with a crescent-shaped earring, draped in a dark red himation with her bare right arm raised towards the gravestone. A band of meander pattern decorates the top of the body. This vase has been assembled from fragments and extensively repaired. The mouth and handle may in fact have originally come from another similar vase.
Dimensions
H. 21 cm (8 1/4 in.)
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