White-ground Lekythos

Title: White-ground Lekythos
Inventory Number: A0020
Date Acquired: Unknown
Source: None
Provenance: Greece
From Date: -450
To Date: -400
Description: Trumpet-mouth lekythos with in main white slipped zone opposite handle, badly drawn in dilute glaze, woman in chiton and himation standing before tomb with: 2 stripes below and above 2 stripes and narrow band with irregular diagonal stripes from one side of vase to other above figure d zone. Lower body, top of base solidly coated, single stripe around top of lower torus of profiled base. Shoulder decorated with radiating stripes below short band of stripes at base of neck; interior and exterior of mouth and exterior of handle solidly coated.
State of Preservation: Most of paint on body below figured scene worn off, scattered wear of paint and some slight chipping. Mended at juncture of lip and neck.
Height: 17.5 cm
Max Diameter: 6.13 cm
Rim Diameter: 3.45 cm
Base Diameter: 5.0 cm
Color: Clay body 5YR 6/4 (light reddish brown); slip 5YR 8/1 (white); painted decoration 5YR 3/1 (very dark gray).
Notes: Slide Coll
Type: vessel
Material: fired clay