About the Artwork
Lekythos
ca. 500 BCE
Group of Athens 581
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Greek
Unknown
Black-figure ware
Overall: 7 7/8 × 3 1/2 inches (20 × 8.9 cm) Overall (diam of mouth): 1 7/8 inches (4.8 cm) Overall (diam of foot): 2 3/16 inches (5.6 cm)
Ceramics
Greco-Roman and Ancient European
City of Detroit Purchase
24.124
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
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Provenance
found at (Cyrene, Libya)
collection of the Dukes of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (Gotha, Germany)
collection Herzog Albert Ernest Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh and Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (Gotha, Germany)
collection placed on deposit (Schloss Friedenstein, Gotha, Germany), no. H. A. 9
(Herzogliches Museum, Gotha, Germany)
1924-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Bothmer, D. von. Amazons in Greek Art. Oxford, 1957, no. 96, pp. 47, 48, 239, pl. 37, no. 4 (repr. detail).
Böhr, E. Der Shaukelmaler, Kerameus. Mainz/Rhein, 1982, vol. 4, p. 69, no. 359.
Madigan, B. "Corinthian and Attic Vases in the Detroit Institute of Arts." In Monumenta Graeca et Romana, vol. 12. Leiden/Boston, 2008, p. 33, cat. 39, (figs. 61-62) [attributed to class of Athens 581i].
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attributed to Group of Athens 581, Lekythos, ca. 500 BCE, black-figure ware. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 24.124.
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