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Oil flask (lekythos) with two women visiting a grave
Greek
Classical Period
about 440–430 B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Greece, Attica, Athens
Medium/Technique
Ceramic, White Ground
Dimensions
Height: 32.3 cm (12 11/16 in.); diameter: 10.2 cm (4 in.).
Credit Line
Gift of Edward Robinson
Accession Number94.127
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
DescriptionTwo women face one another on either side of a simple stele. The one at the left brings a basket with fillets, one black, the others red. The other holds in her hands a long black fillet. The left figure indistinct and partly obscured by damage.
Condition: Base restored with plaster.
Condition: Base restored with plaster.
ProvenanceBy date unknown: Edward Robinson Collection (according to Fairbanks, White Lekythoi, p. 25: Athens.); gift of Edward Robinson to MFA, October 9, 1894