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Detail: shoulder
DEACESSIONED September 21, 2006
Oil flask (lekythos)
Probably by: the Terpaulos Painter
Greek
Archaic Period
about 500–490 B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Greece, Attica, Athens
Medium/Technique
Ceramic, Red Figure
Dimensions
Height: 37 cm (14 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase with funds by exchange from a Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius C. Vermeule III
Accession Number1977.713
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
DescriptionThe body is plain, black-glazed, as are the neck and handle, the top of the mouth and the rim of the foot being reserved in red. Shoulder: death of Aigisthos in overlapping scenes, (l. to r.) Klytaimnestra with double-axe, Telamedes restraining her, Orestes stabbing Aigisthos, the latter sinking to ground from throne in the hand. A section of shoulder with right lower portion of figured scene, palmette, and upper body design missing, filled in (not colored).
InscriptionsInscriptions: "Klytaimnestra"; Telamedes"; "Orestes"
ProvenanceMarch 14-15, 1975, sale (auction 51), Münzen und Medaillen AG, Basel, lot 150. 1977, sold by Münzen und Medaillen to the MFA [see note]; September 21, 2006, deaccessioned by the MFA for transfer to the Republic of Italy.
NOTE: MFA accession date: October 12, 1977.
For further information, please see: http://www.mfa.org/collections/provenance/antiquities-and-cultural-property/italian-ministry-of-culture-agreement
NOTE: MFA accession date: October 12, 1977.
For further information, please see: http://www.mfa.org/collections/provenance/antiquities-and-cultural-property/italian-ministry-of-culture-agreement