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White-ground lekythos.

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Cup mouth; splaying neck; moulding at junction between neck and shoulder; shoulder sharply set off from body; vertical band handle from neck to shoulder; cylindrical body, tapering towards base; ridge encircling junction between body and base; disc base with groove around upper edge; concave bottom with central nipple. Red clay; black glaze; white slip; matt, brown, pink and red paint. Inside and outside of mouth (except top), neck, handle, lower body and base top black; shoulder and most part of body white; three black palmette fans, scrolls and dots on shoulder; on body above figures meander and cross pattern between black lines; on body opposite handle two women - the one to the left seated on a klismos, playing a kithara, hanging above her are an oinochoe and a fillet; the standing woman to the right is draped in a pink himation, and holds a red fillet in her left hand, above her are another oinochoe and a fillet plus the inscription ‘¢º§ž™ š§ž™ ‘ž ªð§¡ž¶žÀ’; base line below figures.
The Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities
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Title: White-ground lekythos.
Description:
Cup mouth; splaying neck; moulding at junction between neck and shoulder; shoulder sharply set off from body; vertical band handle from neck to shoulder; cylindrical body, tapering towards base; ridge encircling junction between body and base; disc base with groove around upper edge; concave bottom with central nipple.
Red clay; black glaze; white slip; matt, brown, pink and red paint.
Inside and outside of mouth (except top), neck, handle, lower body and base top black; shoulder and most part of body white; three black palmette fans, scrolls and dots on shoulder; on body above figures meander and cross pattern between black lines; on body opposite handle two women - the one to the left seated on a klismos, playing a kithara, hanging above her are an oinochoe and a fillet; the standing woman to the right is draped in a pink himation, and holds a red fillet in her left hand, above her are another oinochoe and a fillet plus the inscription ‘¢º§ž™ š§ž™ ‘ž ªð§¡ž¶žÀ’; base line below figures.

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