Many details now partially faded were highlighted in purple or white paint.
Attic black figure lekythos.
The warrior wears a corinthian crested helmet and carries a shield and spear with details added in purple.
Hastily drawn meander borders scene at top.
Taleides painter greek attic amasis greek attic active 560 520 b c 18 3 cm 7 3 16 in 76 ae 48.
475 450 bc the body of the vase is decorated with palmettes black banding down towards the foot a ray pattern around the shoulder and the mouth dipped in black dimensions.
6 1 2 in 16 4 cm from an ex english private collection.
Attic attica greece black figure lekythos greek pottery vessel 5th century bc.
This example is decorated in the so called black figure technique.
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The shoulder of the lekythos is decorated with a cockerel between two ivy leaves.
Additions to attic black figure vase painters and to attic red figure vase painters 2nd edition.
New evidence on the mechanics of loom weights american journal of archaeology 85 1.
Body carries image of male figure reclining on a couch beneath a grape arbor.
Von bothmer dietrich and alan l.
Culture greek athens cock group c.
Black figure pottery painting also known as the black figure style or black figure ceramic greek μελανόμορφα melanomorpha is one of the styles of painting on antique greek vases it was especially common between the 7th and 5th centuries bc although there are specimens dating as late as the 2nd century bc.
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The lekythos is the archetypal funerary oil vase in attic pottery.
Some incisions made with a point before the firing process indicate details of the anatomy and of the clothing.