Lekythos
64-18-5
From: Italy | Campania | Pompeii (uncertain)
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 64-18-5 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | South Italian |
| Provenience | Italy | Campania | Pompeii (uncertain) |
| Manufacture Location | South Italy |
| Date Made | ca. 350 BCE |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Technique | Black Glaze |
| Description | Ring foot, its profile in two degrees (a single wheel-groove beneath glaze encircling it). Body ovoid in profule. Strap handle, vertical, attached at upper body and on lower neck. Lip trumpet shaped. Fully glazed except for a band reserved and painted pink at juncture of lower wall and foot. Resting surface and bottom unglazed except for three wheel-painted bands of glaze. Intact. |
| Height | 25.3 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 11.8 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of Minerva S. Buerk, 1964 |
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