Lekythos

Museum number:
8-37
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.21 and Acc.29
Description:
Attic white-ground lekythos; handle & upper part of neck broken & mended; on collar, egg pattern; on shoulder, palmette ornament; above scene, maeander; dead woman in mantle seated at pamette stele; behind her, a heron; at 1. girl mourner with alabastron & basket of wreaths & tainiai; at r., youth; in field, pendent aryballos. Once in Brussels in the Somzée Collection.
Donor:
Alfred Emerson and Somzee Collection
Collection place:
Athens, Attica, Greece
Verbatim coll. place:
Athens; Greece
Collector:
Alfred Emerson
Materials:
Ceramic (material)
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Lekythoi
Accession date:
December 13, 1901 and December 27, 1902
Department:
Classical Mediterranean
Loans:
S1939-1940 #2: California Palace of the Legion of Honor (November 9, 1939–October 22, 1940), S1957-1960 [XXX Wellington]: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (1957–1960), and S1962-1963 #44: M. H. de Young Memorial Museum (March 15, 1963–April 2, 1963)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 5 titled Lekythos, accession number 8-37, described as Attic white-ground lekythos; handle & upper part of neck broken & mended; on collar, egg pattern; on shoulder, palmette ornament; above scene, maeander; dead woman in mantle seated at pamette stele; behind her, a heron; at 1. girl mourner with alabastron & basket of wreaths & tainiai; at r., youth; in field, pendent aryballos. Once in Brussels in the Somzée Collection.Hearst Museum object 2 of 5 titled Lekythos, accession number 8-37, described as Attic white-ground lekythos; handle & upper part of neck broken & mended; on collar, egg pattern; on shoulder, palmette ornament; above scene, maeander; dead woman in mantle seated at pamette stele; behind her, a heron; at 1. girl mourner with alabastron & basket of wreaths & tainiai; at r., youth; in field, pendent aryballos. Once in Brussels in the Somzée Collection.Hearst Museum object 3 of 5 titled Lekythos, accession number 8-37, described as Attic white-ground lekythos; handle & upper part of neck broken & mended; on collar, egg pattern; on shoulder, palmette ornament; above scene, maeander; dead woman in mantle seated at pamette stele; behind her, a heron; at 1. girl mourner with alabastron & basket of wreaths & tainiai; at r., youth; in field, pendent aryballos. Once in Brussels in the Somzée Collection.Hearst Museum object 4 of 5 titled Lekythos, accession number 8-37, described as Attic white-ground lekythos; handle & upper part of neck broken & mended; on collar, egg pattern; on shoulder, palmette ornament; above scene, maeander; dead woman in mantle seated at pamette stele; behind her, a heron; at 1. girl mourner with alabastron & basket of wreaths & tainiai; at r., youth; in field, pendent aryballos. Once in Brussels in the Somzée Collection.Hearst Museum object 5 of 5 titled Lekythos, accession number 8-37, described as Attic white-ground lekythos; handle & upper part of neck broken & mended; on collar, egg pattern; on shoulder, palmette ornament; above scene, maeander; dead woman in mantle seated at pamette stele; behind her, a heron; at 1. girl mourner with alabastron & basket of wreaths & tainiai; at r., youth; in field, pendent aryballos. Once in Brussels in the Somzée Collection.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Lekythos, accession number 8-37, described as Attic white-ground lekythos; handle & upper part of neck broken & mended; on collar, egg pattern; on shoulder, palmette ornament; above scene, maeander; dead woman in mantle seated at pamette stele; behind her, a heron; at 1. girl mourner with alabastron & basket of wreaths & tainiai; at r., youth; in field, pendent aryballos. Once in Brussels in the Somzée Collection.

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