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Marble funerary lekythos

Attic workshop-0345/-0335

Benaki Museum of Greek Civilization

Benaki Museum of Greek Civilization
Athens, Greece

Marble Attic funerary lekythos with a dexiosis (farewell) scene. The farewell scene between a seated male and a standing female figure is depicted. Traces of the painted decoration are preserved in places: palmettes on the shoulder and Ionic cymation (egg-and-dart) on the upper body. c. 340 BC. H. 1,09 m. Gift of Aikaterini, Ersi and Georgios Drinis in memory of their father Ioannis. (ΓΕ 37783)

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