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© Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya - Girona
Omeka ID 3141
Empúries
Colonisations

lekythos

MAC GIR-000018

Object type
lekythos
Production date
-600 / -401
Fabric
-
Museum
Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya - Girona
Culture
Colonisations
Discovery location
Empúries
Materials
pottery
Township
Escala, l' (Europa, Espanya, Catalunya, Girona, Alt Empordà)
Technique
wheel-thrown
Where is it?
MASPG
Dimensions
160 x 34 (Ø) x 47 (Ø) x41 (Ø) mm
Description
Attic lekythos with black figures. It is a cylindrical container with discoidal foot, and a narrow and long neck. The mouth has a funnel shape and has a vertical handle. This type of recipient used to contain perfumes and usually appears in funeral contexts. It comes from one of the Greek necropolises at Empúries (L'Escala, Alt Empordà) and is dated in the 6th-5th centuries BC. The scene represented on the lekythos is a chariot, with a female character about to climb into it. It is possibly Ariadne. In front of the chariot, a character who wears a himation is sitting in a chair. In the background, behind the chariot, are Apollo with a lyre and Dionysus, bearded and with a horn in his hand.

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