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Lekythos: GR.30.1937

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Current Location: Gallery 21

Maker(s)

Achilles Painter

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Description

Lekythos, woman with phiale, Hermes

Legal notes

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

Measurements and weight

Height: 0.418 m
Width: 0.136 m

Place(s) associated

  • Athens

Acquisition and important dates

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

Dating

Classical
-0450 BCE - -0440 BCE

Note

Red-figured

Materials used in production

Clay

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Identification numbers

Accession number: GR.30.1937
Primary reference Number: 69319
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Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 7 June 2022 Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

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

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