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Athenian lekythos with a chariot-race

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An image of Vessel. Lekythos. Chariot-race. Production Place: Attica, Athens. Clay, black-figured, height 0.315 m, width 0.126 m, 500-490 B.C. Archaic Period.

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Vessel. Lekythos. Chariot-race. Production Place: Attica, Athens. Clay, black-figured, height 0.315 m, width 0.126 m, 500-490 B.C. Archaic Period.

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  • Accession Number: GR.52.1864
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/32.0
  • Focal length: 120
  • Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
  • Photographer name: Mark Box
  • Image height: 1024 pixels
  • Image width: 819 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.7 (Macintosh)
  • Filesize: 92.12kB
  • Exposure time: 1/125
  • ISO Speed: 100
  • Fnumber: 32/1
  • Captured: 2012:05:21 09:54:21

Key words

5th Century Ancient Greece animal animals antiquity Archaic Period Athenian Attic BC black-figured chariot chariot race charioteer clay equestrian Fitz_ANT Greek handle handled horses Lekythoi lekythos oil vessel pottery quadriga tall vessel

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