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Description: | Condition - neck and mouth are missing. Decoration : two figures painted in black surrounded by a dot pattern., Lekythos, a one handled flask for perfumeed oils. The narrow aperture prevented the evaporation of the valuable contents. This example is missing from part way up the neck, although the handle, painted black on the outside,remains intact. The remnant neck appears to have been unpainted, whilst the shoulder is decorated with two concentric bands of narrow tongues, the inner short and the outer longer, reaching the edge of the vessel. The main body depicts the silhouettes of two, or possibly three, people, seated or crouching with leaf chainns swirling in the background. The figures are poorly defined and an implement has been used over the top to scratch the surface away to add detail. No traces of overlaying colours to additionally bring out the detail are noted. A reserved band beneath appears to be divided where paint from the figures above has run. Below, to part way doen the foot is painted black, the underside of the foot is unpainted with a small central kick up. The reverse of this vessel is worn, with paint missing from the black areas and the surface of the natural terracotta-couloured fabric also abraided.,
Accession number: NCM 1921-28 | Subjects: | GREEK food and drink? objects of indeterminate use (containers) ceramics APULIAN | Temporal: | 399BC-200BC | Source: | Nottingham City Museums and Galleries | Creator: | ITALY? | Identifier: | http://media.culturegrid.org.uk/mediaLib... | Go to resource |
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