Creative Commons License
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons License
Lekythos Depicting a Mounted Amazon
(Ancient Greece )
This white-ground shoulder lekythos depicts a mounted Amazon dressed in a chitoniskos to the right. She holds a spear diagonally in her right hand; a bow and quiver hang on her back.
Provenance
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Joseph Brummer, New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1924, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Geographies
Greece, Attica (Place of Origin)
Measurements
9 3/4 x 2 13/16 in. (24.8 x 7.1 cm) (h. x max. diam.);
at mouth: 2 in. (5.1 cm) (diam.);
at foot: 1 15/16 in. (4.9 cm) (diam.)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters, 1924
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.
48.231