Lekanis Cosmetic Vessel Showing Sphinxes and Sirens

An image of vessel
lekanis
cosmetic vessel lekanis, sphinxes and sirens

black-figured

Field Collection
Athens

Dimensions
diameter 0.134 m
height 0.051 m
width 0.17 m

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vessel lekanis cosmetic vessel lekanis, sphinxes and sirens black-figured Field Collection Athens Dimensions diameter 0.134 m height 0.051 m width 0.17 m

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Accession Number: GR.3.1967
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Aperture: f/45.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: norman, andrew; andrew
Image height: 570 pixels
Image width: 760 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3.5 (Windows)
Filesize: 77.84kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 200
Fnumber: 45/1
Captured: 2011:11:03 14:38:07

Key words

6th Century Archaic Artistic Movement BC Date Department Fitz_ANT Grecian Greek Material Nationalities Object Type Other Keywords Workflow _WF_AdOK _WF_OPAC anthropomorphic clay cosmetics creature lekanis mythical mythological mythology painted siren sphinx vessel

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