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Lekythos (oil flask): Four Figures and Horses by — VisualArtsDB

Lekythos (oil flask): Four Figures and Horses

Lekythos (oil flask): Four Figures and Horses

-525–-500

Medium: Black-figure
Dimensions: 16.9 cm (6 5/8 in.)
Genre: Vessel
Museum: Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, US

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Lekythos has a "chimney mouth, sharp shoulders and a high blunt foot", a type described by John Boardman in Athenian Black Figure Vases, 1974.