Skip to main content

Lekythos: GR.52.1864

An image of Lekythos
View image details IIIF icon - view image Universal Viewer Deep zoom Mirador icon - view image Mirador deep zoom IIIF Manifest IIIF Manifest Slow looking

Terms of use

These images are provided for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons License (BY-NC-ND). To license a high resolution version, please contact our image library who will discuss fees, terms and waivers.

Download this image

Creative commons explained - what it means, how you can use our's and other people's content.

Alternative views

An image of Lekythos
An image of Lekythos
An image of Lekythos
An image of Lekythos
An image of Lekythos
View all 20 images attached
Current Location: In storage

Entities

Categories

Description

Lekythos, chariot-race

Measurements and weight

Height: 0.315 m
Width: 0.126 m

Relative size of this object

12.6 cm31.5 cm1 mm What does this represent?

Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.

Place(s) associated

  • Athens ⪼ Attica ⪼ Greece

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bought (1864) by Leake, William Martin

Dating

Archaic
-500 - -490

Materials used in production

Clay

References and bibliographic entries

Identification numbers

Accession number: GR.52.1864
Primary reference Number: 65633
Oldmuseumnumber: G75

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Thursday 20 April 2017

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Antiquities

Citation for print

This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:

The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "Lekythos" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/65633 Accessed: 2023-06-03 13:33:50

Citation for Wikipedia

To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:

{{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/65633 |title=Lekythos |author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-06-03 13:33:50|publisher=The University of Cambridge}}

API call for this record

To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:

https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/api/v1/objects/object-65633

Bootstrap HTML code for reuse

To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:

<div class="text-center">
    <figure class="figure">
        <img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant47/GR_52_1864_01_201205_mdb56_dc2.jpg"
        alt="Lekythos"
        class="img-fluid" />
        <figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Lekythos</figcaption>
    </figure>
</div>

Please enter your name as you would like to be addressed
Please enter your email address
The object accession number - this is prefilled
Please enter your query with as much detail as possible

More objects and works of art you might like

An image of Squat lekythos

Squat lekythos

Accession Number: Loan Ant.103.26

An image of Squat lekythos

Squat lekythos

Accession Number: GR.P.75

An image of Squat lekythos

Squat lekythos

Accession Number: GR.P.76

An image of Lekythos

Lekythos

Accession Number: GR.115.1908

Sign up for updates

Updates about future exhibitions and displays, family activities, virtual events & news. You'll be the first to know...

University of Cambridge Museums logo
Cambridge City Council logo
Arts Council England Logo
Research England logo