Culture greek athens cock group c.
Attic black figure lekythos.
A female figure is seated on the other side of a vine and plays the double flute or aulos.
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Attic attica greece black figure lekythos greek pottery vessel 5th century bc.
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Small black figure lekythos with round base relatively squat body narrow neck and slightly flared mouth.
The shoulder of the lekythos is decorated with a cockerel between two ivy leaves.
The lekythos is the archetypal funerary oil vase in attic pottery.
6 1 2 in 16 4 cm from an ex english private collection.
Body carries image of male figure reclining on a couch beneath a grape arbor.
Additions to attic black figure vase painters and to attic red figure vase painters 2nd edition.
This example is decorated in the so called black figure technique.
Many details now partially faded were highlighted in purple or white paint.
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Von bothmer dietrich and alan l.
475 450 bc the body of the vase is decorated with palmettes black banding down towards the foot a ray pattern around the shoulder and the mouth dipped in black dimensions.
The warrior wears a corinthian crested helmet and carries a shield and spear with details added in purple.
Hastily drawn meander borders scene at top.
Some incisions made with a point before the firing process indicate details of the anatomy and of the clothing.