Athenian lekythos with a chariot-race

An image of Vessel. Lekythos. Chariot-race. Production Place: Attica, Athens. Clay, black-figured, height 0.315 m, width 0.126 m, 500-490 B.C. Archaic Period.

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Vessel. Lekythos. Chariot-race. Production Place: Attica, Athens. Clay, black-figured, height 0.315 m, width 0.126 m, 500-490 B.C. Archaic Period.

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Accession Number: GR.52.1864
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/32.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Mark Box
Image height: 1024 pixels
Image width: 819 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.7 (Macintosh)
Filesize: 92.12kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 32/1
Captured: 2012:05:21 09:54:21

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5th Century Ancient Greece animal animals antiquity Archaic Period Athenian Attic BC black-figured chariot chariot race charioteer clay equestrian Fitz_ANT Greek handle handled horses Lekythoi lekythos oil vessel pottery quadriga tall vessel

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