Athenian squat lekythos, with Aphrodite, Eros and a bride

An image of Vessel. Squat lekythos, with Aphrodite, Eros and bride. Find Spot: Panticapaion, Crimea, Russia. Production Place: Athens. Clay, red-figured, height 0.135 m, diameter 0.07 m, 390 BC. Classical Greek Period. Lewis Collection.

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Vessel. Squat lekythos, with Aphrodite, Eros and bride. Find Spot: Panticapaion, Crimea, Russia. Production Place: Athens. Clay, red-figured, height 0.135 m, diameter 0.07 m, 390 BC. Classical Greek Period. Lewis Collection.

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Accession Number: Loan Ant.103.26
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/27.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Mark Box
Image height: 1280 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3.6 (Windows)
Filesize: 101.84kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 27/1
Captured: 2012:06:12 10:25:14

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