Skip to main content

Lekythos: GR.6.1937

Current Location: In storage

Maker(s)

Swing Painter (Akin to some works by)

Entities

Categories

Description

Lekythos, wrestlers, people

Legal notes

The Ricketts and Shannon Collection. Bequeathed by Charles Shannon, 1937

Measurements and weight

Height: 0.227 m
Width: 0.144 m

Place(s) associated

  • Athens ⪼ Attica ⪼ Greece

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1937) by Shannon, Charles Haslewood

Dating

Archaic
-0550 BCE - -0540 BCE

Note

Black-figured

Materials used in production

Clay

References and bibliographic entries

Identification numbers

Accession number: GR.6.1937
Primary reference Number: 69295

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 7 June 2022

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 (2024) "Lekythos" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/69295 Accessed: 2024-04-20 14:25:54

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/69295 |title=Lekythos |author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-04-20 14:25:54|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-69295

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.76

An image of Squat lekythos

Squat lekythos

Accession Number: GR.P.75

An image of Lekythos

Lekythos

Accession Number: GR.52.1864

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