Lekythos, between 440 and 430 BCE

  • Greek
  • Overall (diam of foot): 6 1/4 × 3 1/8 × 2 7/8 × 2 1/8 inches (15.9 × 7.9 × 7.3 × 5.4 cm)

City of Detroit Purchase

24.118

Department

Greco-Roman and Ancient European

1871, found near the Dipylon Gate (Athens, Greece)

collection of the Dukes of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (Gotha, Germany)

collection placed on deposit (Schloss Friedenstein, Gotha, Germany), no. 60

(Herzogliches Museum, Gotha, Germany)

1924-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Madigan, B. "Corinthian and Attic Vases in the Detroit Institute of Arts." In Monumenta Graeca et Romana, vol. 12. Leiden/Boston, 2008, pp. 60-61, cat. 80, (fig. 110) [attributed to the Quadrate Painter].

Greek, Lekythos, between 440 and 430 BCE. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 24.118.