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Lekanis Cosmetic Vessel Showing Sphinxes and Sirens

Image attached to GR.3.1967

An image of vessel 
lekanis 
cosmetic vessel lekanis, sphinxes and sirens

 black-figured
 
Field Collection 
 Athens
 
Dimensions
 diameter 0.134 m
height 0.051 m
width 0.17 m

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vessel lekanis cosmetic vessel lekanis, sphinxes and sirens black-figured Field Collection Athens Dimensions diameter 0.134 m height 0.051 m width 0.17 m

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  • Accession Number: GR.3.1967
  • Copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum
  • Aperture: f/45.0
  • Focal length: 120
  • Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
  • Photographer name: norman, andrew; andrew
  • Image height: 570 pixels
  • Image width: 760 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3.5 (Windows)
  • Filesize: 77.84kB
  • Exposure time: 1/60
  • ISO Speed: 200
  • Fnumber: 45/1
  • Captured: 2011:11:03 14:38:07

Key words

6th Century Archaic Artistic Movement BC Date Department Fitz_ANT Grecian Greek Material Nationalities Object Type Other Keywords Workflow _WF_AdOK _WF_OPAC anthropomorphic clay cosmetics creature lekanis mythical mythological mythology painted siren sphinx vessel

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rgb(88,75,64), rgb(228,229,228), rgb(181,151,125), rgb(195,135,88), rgb(106,108,108), rgb(117,108,108), rgb(196,187,176), rgb(163,165,164), rgb(196,196,196), rgb(170,140,100), rgb(172,164,164)

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