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Athenian squat lekythos, with Aphrodite, Eros and a bride

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An image of Vessel. Squat lekythos, with Aphrodite, Eros and bride. Find Spot: Panticapaion, Crimea, Russia. Production Place: Athens. Clay, red-figured, height 0.135 m, diameter 0.07 m, 390 BC. Classical Greek Period. Lewis Collection.

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Vessel. Squat lekythos, with Aphrodite, Eros and bride. Find Spot: Panticapaion, Crimea, Russia. Production Place: Athens. Clay, red-figured, height 0.135 m, diameter 0.07 m, 390 BC. Classical Greek Period. Lewis Collection.

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  • Accession Number: Loan Ant.103.26
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/27.0
  • Focal length: 120
  • Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
  • Photographer name: Mark Box
  • Image height: 1280 pixels
  • Image width: 1024 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3.6 (Windows)
  • Filesize: 101.84kB
  • Exposure time: 1/125
  • ISO Speed: 100
  • Fnumber: 27/1
  • Captured: 2012:06:12 10:25:14

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4th Century _WF_KWD _WF_Lewis_Collection _WF_Loan _WF_OPAC _WF_OPAC_pending Ancient Greece antiquity Aphrodite Athenian Attic BC Classical Greek Period clay Eros Fitz_ANT Greek handle handled Lekythoi lekythos oil vessel red-figured squat Venus vessel

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