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Lekythos
Italic, Latin, Faliscan
Classical Period
375–350 B.C.
Medium/Technique
Ceramic
Dimensions
9.6 cm (3 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number13.78
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
Catalogue Raisonné
Vase-Painting in Italy (MFA), no. 159.
DescriptionDesign nearly obliterated. Draped figure on the front, scrolls and palmettes around the rest of the body, rays on the shoulder.
Spherical, small.
ITALIAN VASE PAINTING in ITALY, #159 (13.78)
Squat Lekythos
Probably Faliscan
Attributed to the Sokra Group (Pianu)
375-350 B.C.
On the front, a draped figure of indeterminate sex is standing to the left. There is a palmette on the back, scrolling tendrils on the sides, and rays around the shoulder; all but the rays and parts of the figure's cloak are now effaced.
Beazley associated this lekythos with the Phantom Group, but Pianu restricts the group to the unincised oinochoai for shape 7, which, he argues, belong to the second half of the fourth century.
Compare Pianu, Sovradipinte, pl. 17. no. 22
Spherical, small.
ITALIAN VASE PAINTING in ITALY, #159 (13.78)
Squat Lekythos
Probably Faliscan
Attributed to the Sokra Group (Pianu)
375-350 B.C.
On the front, a draped figure of indeterminate sex is standing to the left. There is a palmette on the back, scrolling tendrils on the sides, and rays around the shoulder; all but the rays and parts of the figure's cloak are now effaced.
Beazley associated this lekythos with the Phantom Group, but Pianu restricts the group to the unincised oinochoai for shape 7, which, he argues, belong to the second half of the fourth century.
Compare Pianu, Sovradipinte, pl. 17. no. 22
Provenance1877: loaned to MFA by William Sturgis Bigelow; gift of William Sturgis Bigelow to MFA, January 2, 1913