Lucanian red-figure lekythos-aryballos

Classification

red-figure pottery ; lekythos-aryballos

Culture

Magna Graecian ; Samnite

Dimensions

height: 16,45 cm, diam. of mouth: 4,5 cm, diam. of base: 5,84 cm

Date

ca. 320–300 B.C.

Period

Hellenistic Period (Greek, 323–31)

Material

clay

Iconography

offering scene ; egg ; female figure ; tomb ; male figure ; mantle ; scepter/staff ; lekythos ; ball ; musical instrument?; palmette/palmette frieze

Production place

Lucania

Findspot

Rionero

Present location

Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts, Collection of Classical Antiquities

Provenance

Máttyus, Izidor Collection ; Markos, György dr. Collection

Inventory

75.42.A

ID

Hyp-5634

References

Szilágyi, J. Gy. 2002, 37–42, no. 4

Year of discovery

1861

The object was found in the Hungarian excavation at Rionero in 1861.

Trails

Rionero

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This record is subject to revision due to ongoing research.