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Attic Black-Figure Lekythos Fragment
Athena Painterabout 500–490 B.C.
The J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, United States
Fragment preserves small part of shoulder as well as a section from the upper part of the body; most of the head of a woman to left wearing a fillet (maenad). In the field: vines (only the tip of a branch is preserved). On the body, just below the shoulder, band of net pattern between two pairs of dilute lines.
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Details
- Title: Attic Black-Figure Lekythos Fragment
- Creator: Athena Painter
- Date Created: about 500–490 B.C.
- Location Created: Athens, Greece
- Physical Dimensions: 4.1 × 5.2 cm (1 5/8 × 2 1/16 in.)
- Type: Lekythos
- External Link: Find out more about this object on the Museum website.
- Medium: Terracotta
- Terms of Use: Open Content
- Number: 86.AE.136
- Culture: Greek (Attic)
- Credit Line: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Villa Collection, Malibu, California
- Creator Display Name: Attributed to the Athena Painter (Greek (Athenian), active 500 - 490 B.C.)
- Classification: Vessels (Containers)
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