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Lekythos with Two Figures and Winged Sepulchur
(Ancient Greece )
This white-ground shoulder lekythos depicts a youth and a woman at a tomb. On the left a woman stands nearly frontally to the right, her head and left leg in profile. She wears a peplos and gestures as in grief with both hands. In the center a rectangular stele with pedimental finial sits on top of a two-step base. Traces of ribbons are visible on the lower step and lower part of the stele. On the right a youth in a chitoniskos and chlamys bends over to the left leaning on two spears. His right hand rests beneath his chin. He has a pestasos hanging down his back and a belt around his waist.
Provenance
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Dr. Frederick G. Stern, Potomac, Maryland, by 1984 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1985, by gift.
Geographies
Greece, Attica (Place of Origin)
Measurements
9 3/4 x 2 3/4 in. (24.8 x 7 cm) (h. x max. diam.);
at mouth: 1 15/16 in. (5 cm) (diam.);
at foot: 1 13/16 in. (4.6 cm) (diam.)
Credit Line
Gift of Dr. Frederick G. Stern, 1985
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
48.2523