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Oil flask (lekythos)
Greek
Classical Period
about 430 B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Greece, Attica, Athens
Medium/Technique
Ceramic, Red Figure
Dimensions
Height: 42.2 cm (16 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Anonymous gift
Accession Number93.104
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
Catalogue Raisonné
Caskey-Beazley, Attic Vase Paintings (MFA), no. 056.
DescriptionA youth and a maiden on either side of a stele. The maiden, at the left wears chiton and himation, and carries a plemochoë. The youth, at the right wears chiton and chlamys, and a petasos hangs at his shoulder. He has sword and spear.
ProvenanceBy 1893: with Mr. de Caix de Saint-Aymour in Paris (said to have been found in the island of Euboea, at Eretria); purchased from him by an Anonymous donor; Anonymous gift to MFA, March 1893