Athenian lekythos with a young man at a grave

An image of Vessel. Lekythos, young man at grave. Find Spot/Production Place: Athens, Attica, Greece. Clay, white-ground, height 0.348 m, width 0.118 m, 440 B.C. Classical Period.

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Vessel. Lekythos, young man at grave. Find Spot/Production Place: Athens, Attica, Greece. Clay, white-ground, height 0.348 m, width 0.118 m, 440 B.C. Classical Period.

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Accession Number: GR.55.1896
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/32.0
Focal length: 80
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Amy Jugg
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 679 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 405.47kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 32/1

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5th Century Ancient Greece antiquity Athenian Attic BC Classical Greek Period clay container Fitz_ANT Greek Lekythoi lekythos oil container oil vessel pottery vessel white ground

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