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Lekythos (oil flask): Visit at Tomb
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White-ground lekythos (oil container) showing visit at tomb marked by tall, acanthus-crowned stele (marker). Bearded man wrapped in himation (mantle) on right, young beardless man with left hand raised on left. Palmette pattern on shoulder.
Polychrome paint badly preserved; neck, mouth, and handle of vessel restored from fragments with some fill.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Loan from Estate of Donald Upham and Mrs. R. U. Hunter
Title: Lekythos (oil flask): Visit at Tomb
Description:
White-ground lekythos (oil container) showing visit at tomb marked by tall, acanthus-crowned stele (marker).
Bearded man wrapped in himation (mantle) on right, young beardless man with left hand raised on left.
Palmette pattern on shoulder.
Polychrome paint badly preserved; neck, mouth, and handle of vessel restored from fragments with some fill.
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