1.3.02026-07-12lekythosRådata3100339objektStatens museer för världskultur - MedelhavsmuseetSMVK-MMFöremålhttp://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/objekt/3100339NM Ant 2108White-ground lekythos. Deep cup mouth; narrow neck with concave profile; moulding around neck top and at junction between neck and shoulder; tapering shoulder, sharply set off from body; vertical, sliced handle from neck to shoulder; cylindrical body, tapering towards base; ridge encircling junction between body and base; disc base with groove around upper edge; concave bottom, central nipple. Red clay; red ochre wash; black glaze; semilustrous, whitish slip; matt, red, brown and black paint. Inside and outside of mouth (except top), handle, lower body and base top black; shoulder and most part of body white; on junction between neck and shoulder ovoli between black lines; on shoulder three black palmette fans and scrolls; on one side of body, right below shoulder, meander pattern between double lines; on body opposite handle a grave stele (largely erased) and, to the left, a woman draped in a red himation, bringing a bombylios; on the right side of the stele another woman (only head, upper body and feet still visible) is holding her left hand on her head in a gesture of mourning, her other hand is pointed towards the stele.NM Ant 2108, Purchased in 1936 by the National Museum, Stockholm, from First Chamberlain Axel Hallin and wife., A lekythos (pl. lekythoi) is generally a taller, cylindrical vessel with a small, deep mouth, narrow neck and a single handle. However, many variants of the shape do exist, including the rounded, squat form and the ovoid “Deianeira” form, all in various sizes. They were used for the storage of oils and are especially associated with funerary contexts. Towards the end of the fourth century BC they were functionally replaced by the unguentaria., Possibly painted by the so-called 'Thanatos Painter'., Surface on body partly very worn. Some paint and glaze gone., H 32.3. Ø of mouth 6.4. Ø of base 6.8., Gustaf III:s Museum of Antiquities, The Royal Palace, Stockholm. The National Museum, 1967. Museum of Contemporary Art, Stockholm, November 22, 1996 - May 20, 1997., Thanatos Painter., - J. D. Beazley, Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters2, Oxford1963, vol.2, p.1230. - Antiken. Konst från den grekisk-romerska kulturvärlden ur svenska samlingar ... (Nationalmusei utställningskatalog 313), Stockholm 1967, n°183. - Tusen år av grekisk keramik (exhibition catalogue), Lidköpings Hantverks och Sjöfartsmuseum 1983, 13, figs.6-7. - E. Rystedt, Grekisk keramik (Medelhavsmuseet, Skrifter 5), Stockholm 1985, 20, figs.17-18. - Picasso och Medelhavets myter (exhibition catalogue), Museum of Contemporary Art, Stockholm 1997, cat.n°146. - O. Antonsson (ed.), Antik konst. En konstbok från Nationalmuseum (Årsbok för svenska statens konstsamlingar 6), Stockholm 1958, 102-104., White-ground, Attic, Study Gallery, Study Gallery - Showcase 14:13.FörvärvadHallin, AxelBrukadClassicalÄgdNationalmuseum, Stockholmimage/jpeghttps://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-mhm/web/image/tn/3773480/representationhttps://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-mhm/web/image/zoom/3773481/representationhttp://kulturarvsdata.se/resurser/License#bySESAM-projektetStatens museer för världskulturimage/jpeghttps://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-mhm/web/image/tn/3773486/representationhttps://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-mhm/web/image/zoom/3773487/representationhttp://kulturarvsdata.se/resurser/License#byStalteri Marcus, AnnaStatens museer för världskulturimage/jpeghttps://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-mhm/web/image/tn/3773489/representationhttps://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-mhm/web/image/zoom/3773490/representationhttp://kulturarvsdata.se/resurser/License#byStalteri Marcus, AnnaStatens museer för världskulturhttp://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/Photograph/3976308http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/exhibition/3953768http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/exhibitionpart/3953688http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-EM/name/3223036http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/objekt/html/3100339http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/objekt/xml/3100339http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/objekt/rdf/3100339