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Squat Lekythos with Youth Wearing a Hat
(Ancient Greece )
This red-figure squat lekythos depicts a youth. The head and neck of the youth wearing a petasos is in profile to the right with florals in front and back of his head.
Depictions of busts were very popular on squat lekythoi during the second half of the 5th century BC.
Provenance
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Dr. Lucille Liberles [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Mrs. Peggy Bohanan [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, October 1980, by gift.
Geographies
Greece, Attica (Place of Origin)
Measurements
3 x 2 1/2 in. (7.6 x 6.4 cm) (h. x max. diam.);
at foot: 2 1/16 in. (5.3 cm) (diam.)
Credit Line
Gift of Peggy Bohanan in memory of Lucille Liberles, 1980
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.
48.2447