Athenian lekythos with Nike flying

An image of Vessel/Lekythos. Nike flying with sash. Production Place: Attica, Athens. Find Spot: Thespiai Boeotia, Greece. Clay, white-ground, height 0.22 m, width 0.073 m, 460-450 B.C. Classical Period.

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Vessel/Lekythos. Nike flying with sash. Production Place: Attica, Athens. Find Spot: Thespiai Boeotia, Greece. Clay, white-ground, height 0.22 m, width 0.073 m, 460-450 B.C. Classical Period.

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Accession Number: GR.4.1917
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 1024 pixels
Image width: 748 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.7 (Macintosh)
Filesize: 90.74kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 22/1
Captured: 2012:05:23 16:12:05

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5th Century Ancient Greece antiquity Athenian Attic BC Classical Greek Period clay Fitz_ANT flying goddess gods Greek Lekythoi lekythos mythological mythology Nike pottery sash tall vessel Victoria (goddess) Victory white winged wings

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