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Oil flask (lekythos) with a man and a woman holding a funerary basket at a grave
Greek
Classical Period
about 440–430 B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Greece, Attica, Athens
Medium/Technique
Ceramic, White Ground
Dimensions
Height: 38.3 cm (15 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Catharine Page Perkins Fund
Accession Number96.721
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
Catalogue Raisonné
Caskey-Beazley, Attic Vase Paintings (MFA), no. 061.
DescriptionA bearded man and a woman meeting at a grave; she carries a flat basket, with long red fillets. The man wears a red himation. The colors of the woman's garment have disappeared, except some fine red stripes on the arm and about the feet.
ProvenanceBy date unknown: with Edward Perry Warren (according to his letter of Feb. 9, 1901: bought in Brussels from a man named Orphanides upon whose statement that it came from Athens no reliance is to be placed); September 9, 1896: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren