ATTIC RED-FIGURED LEKYTHOS

late V c. B.C.

Orange-brown fine clay; semi-lustrous black gloss all over, except for underside of bottom and the image; red wash on reserved areas. Cylindrical body with rounded shoulder; low tapering foot, nearly the same width as body, base hollowed out; tubular neck, high inverted cone-shaped mouth with internal lip at top. Arched handle from neck to shoulder. Bent figure of young woman, wearing a sleeveless chiton with dot border near ankles, holding hydria by both hands in front of a fountain. Ground line of ovolo between horizontal double lines. The L.M. Painter. Mended. H. 4.1? (10.4 cm).

See: Moore M.M. The Athenian Agora, Attic Red- Figured and White-ground Pottery, vol. XXX. Princeton, N.J., 1997, cat. 943; Beazley J.D. Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd ed., Oxford,1364,9; for type in general : Sparkes B.A, Talcott L. The Athenian Agora XII, Black and Plain Pottery of the 6th, 5th, and 4th Centuries B.C. 2 vol., Princeton, N.J., 1970, 153-4.