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Oil flask (lekythos) with Zeus pursuing a female figure
Greek
Classical Period
about 450–440 B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Greece, Attica, Athens
Medium/Technique
Ceramic, Red Figure
Dimensions
Height: 41.5 cm (16 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number01.8077
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
Catalogue Raisonné
Caskey-Beazley, Attic Vase Paintings (MFA), no. 048.
DescriptionZeus pursuing female figure with diadem. (Aegina?) Badly weathered on back. A crack on lower part of front.
The presence of loose ceramic fragments inside the vessel suggest that it originally had an internal compartment at the top, which broke into pieces and fell to the bottom.
The presence of loose ceramic fragments inside the vessel suggest that it originally had an internal compartment at the top, which broke into pieces and fell to the bottom.
ProvenanceBy 1901: with E. P. Warren (according to Warren's records: Bought at Castel Vetrano. The vases there sold are nearly all from Selinus.); purchased by MFA from E. P. Warren; probably from Selinus. December 1901