Lekythos

Museum number:
8-1858
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Accession number:
Acc.103
Description:
Etrusco-Corinthian lekythos. Description from Matteucig (1951): Alabastron; height: 15.7 cm; diameter: 5.7 cm (see Matteucig's plate XIX, 12). Italo-Corinthian. Clay light cream; pinkish-cream slip; dark brown and violet paint. High, flat-bottomed alabas tron with thick swelling about neck. On lip, a broad violet and a narrow brown circle; edge of lip, solid brown; four stripes on handle; above swelling, tongue pattern; from there, down to the middle of the body, alternated broad brown and narrow violet bands; four animals (hounds?) in silhouette, running right; then more bands, alternately brown and violet. Paint badly peeled off. Cf. Not. Sc., 1878, Pl. IV, 2, from Suessola; Not. Sc., 1902, p. 501, fig. 3, no. 4, from So vana; Not. Sc., 1934, p. 373, fig. 26, no. 3, from Populonia; J.d.I., XV, 1900, p. 184, fig. 24, from Poggio Buco; Robinson, Toronto Vases, Pl. XI, 154, from Castel d'Asso; Sieve king-Hackl, Pl. XXIX, 736; C.W.A., Louvre, fasc. 9, III C b, Pl. V, 23; C.W.A., Oxford, fasc. 2, III C, pl. 4, no. 36, from Orvieto; Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Mass., no. 40.5572.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Tomb G, Poggio Buco, Tuscany
Verbatim coll. place:
Tomb G
Culture or time period:
Etruscan and Etrusco-Corinthian
Collector:
Alfred Emerson
Collection date:
1896
Materials:
Ceramic (material)
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Lekythoi
Accession date:
1903
Department:
Classical Mediterranean
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 6 titled Lekythos, accession number 8-1858, described as Etrusco-Corinthian lekythos. Description from Matteucig (1951): Alabastron; height: 15.7 cm; diameter: 5.7 cm (see Matteucig's plate XIX, 12). Italo-Corinthian. Clay light cream; pinkish-cream slip; dark brown and violet paint. High, flat-bottomed alabas tron with thick swelling about neck. On lip, a broad violet and a narrow brown circle; edge of lip, solid brown; four stripes on handle; above swelling, tongue pattern; from there, down to the middle of the body, alternated broad brown and narrow violet bands; four animals (hounds?) in silhouette, running right; then more bands, alternately brown and violet. Paint badly peeled off. Cf. Not. Sc., 1878, Pl. IV, 2, from Suessola; Not. Sc., 1902, p. 501, fig. 3, no. 4, from So vana; Not. Sc., 1934, p. 373, fig. 26, no. 3, from Populonia; J.d.I., XV, 1900, p. 184, fig. 24, from Poggio Buco; Robinson, Toronto Vases, Pl. XI, 154, from Castel d'Asso; Sieve king-Hackl, Pl. XXIX, 736; C.W.A., Louvre, fasc. 9, III C b, Pl. V, 23; C.W.A., Oxford, fasc. 2, III C, pl. 4, no. 36, from Orvieto; Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Mass., no. 40.5572.Hearst Museum object 2 of 6 titled Lekythos, accession number 8-1858, described as Etrusco-Corinthian lekythos. Description from Matteucig (1951): Alabastron; height: 15.7 cm; diameter: 5.7 cm (see Matteucig's plate XIX, 12). Italo-Corinthian. Clay light cream; pinkish-cream slip; dark brown and violet paint. High, flat-bottomed alabas tron with thick swelling about neck. On lip, a broad violet and a narrow brown circle; edge of lip, solid brown; four stripes on handle; above swelling, tongue pattern; from there, down to the middle of the body, alternated broad brown and narrow violet bands; four animals (hounds?) in silhouette, running right; then more bands, alternately brown and violet. Paint badly peeled off. Cf. Not. Sc., 1878, Pl. IV, 2, from Suessola; Not. Sc., 1902, p. 501, fig. 3, no. 4, from So vana; Not. Sc., 1934, p. 373, fig. 26, no. 3, from Populonia; J.d.I., XV, 1900, p. 184, fig. 24, from Poggio Buco; Robinson, Toronto Vases, Pl. XI, 154, from Castel d'Asso; Sieve king-Hackl, Pl. XXIX, 736; C.W.A., Louvre, fasc. 9, III C b, Pl. V, 23; C.W.A., Oxford, fasc. 2, III C, pl. 4, no. 36, from Orvieto; Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Mass., no. 40.5572.Hearst Museum object 3 of 6 titled Lekythos, accession number 8-1858, described as Etrusco-Corinthian lekythos. Description from Matteucig (1951): Alabastron; height: 15.7 cm; diameter: 5.7 cm (see Matteucig's plate XIX, 12). Italo-Corinthian. Clay light cream; pinkish-cream slip; dark brown and violet paint. High, flat-bottomed alabas tron with thick swelling about neck. On lip, a broad violet and a narrow brown circle; edge of lip, solid brown; four stripes on handle; above swelling, tongue pattern; from there, down to the middle of the body, alternated broad brown and narrow violet bands; four animals (hounds?) in silhouette, running right; then more bands, alternately brown and violet. Paint badly peeled off. Cf. Not. Sc., 1878, Pl. IV, 2, from Suessola; Not. Sc., 1902, p. 501, fig. 3, no. 4, from So vana; Not. Sc., 1934, p. 373, fig. 26, no. 3, from Populonia; J.d.I., XV, 1900, p. 184, fig. 24, from Poggio Buco; Robinson, Toronto Vases, Pl. XI, 154, from Castel d'Asso; Sieve king-Hackl, Pl. XXIX, 736; C.W.A., Louvre, fasc. 9, III C b, Pl. V, 23; C.W.A., Oxford, fasc. 2, III C, pl. 4, no. 36, from Orvieto; Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Mass., no. 40.5572.Hearst Museum object 4 of 6 titled Lekythos, accession number 8-1858, described as Etrusco-Corinthian lekythos. Description from Matteucig (1951): Alabastron; height: 15.7 cm; diameter: 5.7 cm (see Matteucig's plate XIX, 12). Italo-Corinthian. Clay light cream; pinkish-cream slip; dark brown and violet paint. High, flat-bottomed alabas tron with thick swelling about neck. On lip, a broad violet and a narrow brown circle; edge of lip, solid brown; four stripes on handle; above swelling, tongue pattern; from there, down to the middle of the body, alternated broad brown and narrow violet bands; four animals (hounds?) in silhouette, running right; then more bands, alternately brown and violet. Paint badly peeled off. Cf. Not. Sc., 1878, Pl. IV, 2, from Suessola; Not. Sc., 1902, p. 501, fig. 3, no. 4, from So vana; Not. Sc., 1934, p. 373, fig. 26, no. 3, from Populonia; J.d.I., XV, 1900, p. 184, fig. 24, from Poggio Buco; Robinson, Toronto Vases, Pl. XI, 154, from Castel d'Asso; Sieve king-Hackl, Pl. XXIX, 736; C.W.A., Louvre, fasc. 9, III C b, Pl. V, 23; C.W.A., Oxford, fasc. 2, III C, pl. 4, no. 36, from Orvieto; Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Mass., no. 40.5572.Hearst Museum object 5 of 6 titled Lekythos, accession number 8-1858, described as Etrusco-Corinthian lekythos. Description from Matteucig (1951): Alabastron; height: 15.7 cm; diameter: 5.7 cm (see Matteucig's plate XIX, 12). Italo-Corinthian. Clay light cream; pinkish-cream slip; dark brown and violet paint. High, flat-bottomed alabas tron with thick swelling about neck. On lip, a broad violet and a narrow brown circle; edge of lip, solid brown; four stripes on handle; above swelling, tongue pattern; from there, down to the middle of the body, alternated broad brown and narrow violet bands; four animals (hounds?) in silhouette, running right; then more bands, alternately brown and violet. Paint badly peeled off. Cf. Not. Sc., 1878, Pl. IV, 2, from Suessola; Not. Sc., 1902, p. 501, fig. 3, no. 4, from So vana; Not. Sc., 1934, p. 373, fig. 26, no. 3, from Populonia; J.d.I., XV, 1900, p. 184, fig. 24, from Poggio Buco; Robinson, Toronto Vases, Pl. XI, 154, from Castel d'Asso; Sieve king-Hackl, Pl. XXIX, 736; C.W.A., Louvre, fasc. 9, III C b, Pl. V, 23; C.W.A., Oxford, fasc. 2, III C, pl. 4, no. 36, from Orvieto; Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Mass., no. 40.5572.Hearst Museum object 6 of 6 titled Lekythos, accession number 8-1858, described as Etrusco-Corinthian lekythos. Description from Matteucig (1951): Alabastron; height: 15.7 cm; diameter: 5.7 cm (see Matteucig's plate XIX, 12). Italo-Corinthian. Clay light cream; pinkish-cream slip; dark brown and violet paint. High, flat-bottomed alabas tron with thick swelling about neck. On lip, a broad violet and a narrow brown circle; edge of lip, solid brown; four stripes on handle; above swelling, tongue pattern; from there, down to the middle of the body, alternated broad brown and narrow violet bands; four animals (hounds?) in silhouette, running right; then more bands, alternately brown and violet. Paint badly peeled off. Cf. Not. Sc., 1878, Pl. IV, 2, from Suessola; Not. Sc., 1902, p. 501, fig. 3, no. 4, from So vana; Not. Sc., 1934, p. 373, fig. 26, no. 3, from Populonia; J.d.I., XV, 1900, p. 184, fig. 24, from Poggio Buco; Robinson, Toronto Vases, Pl. XI, 154, from Castel d'Asso; Sieve king-Hackl, Pl. XXIX, 736; C.W.A., Louvre, fasc. 9, III C b, Pl. V, 23; C.W.A., Oxford, fasc. 2, III C, pl. 4, no. 36, from Orvieto; Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Mass., no. 40.5572.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Lekythos, accession number 8-1858, described as Etrusco-Corinthian lekythos. Description from Matteucig (1951): Alabastron; height: 15.7 cm; diameter: 5.7 cm (see Matteucig's plate XIX, 12). Italo-Corinthian. Clay light cream; pinkish-cream slip; dark brown and violet paint. High, flat-bottomed alabas tron with thick swelling about neck. On lip, a broad violet and a narrow brown circle; edge of lip, solid brown; four stripes on handle; above swelling, tongue pattern; from there, down to the middle of the body, alternated broad brown and narrow violet bands; four animals (hounds?) in silhouette, running right; then more bands, alternately brown and violet. Paint badly peeled off. Cf. Not. Sc., 1878, Pl. IV, 2, from Suessola; Not. Sc., 1902, p. 501, fig. 3, no. 4, from So vana; Not. Sc., 1934, p. 373, fig. 26, no. 3, from Populonia; J.d.I., XV, 1900, p. 184, fig. 24, from Poggio Buco; Robinson, Toronto Vases, Pl. XI, 154, from Castel d'Asso; Sieve king-Hackl, Pl. XXIX, 736; C.W.A., Louvre, fasc. 9, III C b, Pl. V, 23; C.W.A., Oxford, fasc. 2, III C, pl. 4, no. 36, from Orvieto; Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Mass., no. 40.5572.

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