Advanced Search
Requires Photography
Oil flask (lekythos)
Greek
Classical Period
450–425 B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Greece, Attica, Athens
Medium/Technique
Ceramic, White Ground
Dimensions
30.7 cm (12 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Edward Perry Warren
Accession Number93.105
OUT ON LOAN
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
DescriptionTwo women talking. The one at the left stands in profile, and wears bright red dress (chiton). The one at the right extends a shallow, footed bowl (plemochoë) towards the other. Her dress (chiton) has red stripes, and her cloak (himation) is deep red. Between the two women is the Greek inscription "Lichas is handsome." (LIXAS KALOS).
Inscriptions"Lichas is handsome" (LIXAS KALOS)
The sigmas are probably simplifications of four-stroke sigmas.
ΛΙΧΑΣ ΚΑΛΟΣ
The sigmas are probably simplifications of four-stroke sigmas.
ΛΙΧΑΣ ΚΑΛΟΣ
ProvenanceBy date unknown: with Mr. de Caix de Saint-Aymour in Paris (according to MFA Pottery Register: said to have been found in the island of Euboea, at Eretria); purchased from him by an Anonymous donor (Edward Perry Warren); gift of Edward Perry Warren to MFA, March 1893