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Lekythos (oil flask): Hunter with Hare and Rabbit
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White-ground lekythos. Scene depicts a young hunter who wears only a chlamys and walks to the right with a pole on his left shoulder from which are a dead hare and rabbit. With his right hand he touches the fox while looking back over his right shoulder.
Above him is an inscription: KALOS ("beautiful one")
A pair of addorsed, black palmettes frame the figure on both sides; above the figure, a meander patterns continues around the body. The shoulder is decorated with a chain of five black-figure palmettes. The vessel is intact except for a break at the spout.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
[Athens 1897] sold; to Joseph C. Hoppin Pomfret CT ( 1899-1925) bequest; to Fogg Art Museum 1925.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Bequest of Joseph C. Hoppin
Title: Lekythos (oil flask): Hunter with Hare and Rabbit
Description:
White-ground lekythos.
Scene depicts a young hunter who wears only a chlamys and walks to the right with a pole on his left shoulder from which are a dead hare and rabbit.
With his right hand he touches the fox while looking back over his right shoulder.
Above him is an inscription: KALOS ("beautiful one")
A pair of addorsed, black palmettes frame the figure on both sides; above the figure, a meander patterns continues around the body.
The shoulder is decorated with a chain of five black-figure palmettes.
The vessel is intact except for a break at the spout.
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