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Lekythos: GR.6.1937

Object information

Maker(s)

Akin to some works by Swing Painter

Description

Lekythos, wrestlers, people

Measurements and weight

Height: 0.227 m
Width: 0.144 m

Relative size of this object

14.4 cm22.7 cm1 mm What does this represent?

Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.

Place(s) associated

  • Athens ⪼ Attica ⪼ Greece

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1937) by Shannon, Charles Haslewood

Dating

Archaic
-550 BCE - 541 -540 BCE

Note

Black-figured

Materials used in production

Clay

References and bibliographic entries

Identification numbers

Accession number: GR.6.1937
Primary reference Number: 69295
Stable URI

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Wednesday 13 May 2015 Last processed: Sunday 21 March 2021

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Antiquities

Citation for print

This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:

The Fitzwilliam Museum (2020) "Lekythos" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/69295 Accessed: 2022-01-19 16:27:23

Citation for Wikipedia

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