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Two Sepulchral Lekythi
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Mr. Arthur Evans kindly allows me to publish two interesting white lekythi recently acquired for the Ashmolean Museum. The first was said by the vendors to come from the excavations at Eretria, the second from excavations at Athens itself. The particular source of them, however, is not a matter of great importance, since as yet no satisfactory proof has been adduced that the white lekythi found at Eretria were made in Euboea or elsewhere than at Athens. Both of our vases appear to belong to the regular Attic series. The plate and the cut which pertain to this article were both produced from photographs taken with the help of Mr. A. H. Smith's ingenious invention, the cyclograph (see above, p. 192). The plate was made direct from a photograph, the cut drawn by Mr. F. Anderson on the basis of a photograph.Vase No. 1.—Height 15 inches (ctm. 38). (Pl. XV.)On shoulder, three palmettes, leaves alternately red and black.Over design, simple maeander.
Title: Two Sepulchral Lekythi
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Mr.
Arthur Evans kindly allows me to publish two interesting white lekythi recently acquired for the Ashmolean Museum.
The first was said by the vendors to come from the excavations at Eretria, the second from excavations at Athens itself.
The particular source of them, however, is not a matter of great importance, since as yet no satisfactory proof has been adduced that the white lekythi found at Eretria were made in Euboea or elsewhere than at Athens.
Both of our vases appear to belong to the regular Attic series.
The plate and the cut which pertain to this article were both produced from photographs taken with the help of Mr.
A.
H.
Smith's ingenious invention, the cyclograph (see above, p.
192).
The plate was made direct from a photograph, the cut drawn by Mr.
F.
Anderson on the basis of a photograph.
Vase No.
1.
—Height 15 inches (ctm.
38).
(Pl.
XV.
)On shoulder, three palmettes, leaves alternately red and black.
Over design, simple maeander.
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