3033, ATHENIAN, London, British Museum, London, British Museum, 1893,0728.2

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Vase Number: 3033
Fabric: ATHENIAN
Technique: RED-FIGURE
Sub Technique: WHITE GROUND
Shape Name: LEKYTHOS
Provenance: GREECE, EUBOEA, ERETRIA
Date: -450 to -400
Inscriptions: Named: ELEKTRA, ORESTE[S]
Decoration: Body: FUNERARY, WOMAN SEATED AT STELE, DRAPED YOUTH (NAMED, ELECTRA AND ORESTES)
Last Recorded Collection: London, British Museum: D33
Previous Collections:
- London, British Museum: 1893,0728.2 (View on British Museum site)
Publication Record: Bakogianni, A., Electra, ancient and modern, aspects of the reception of the tragic heroine (London, 2011): 22, FIG.2 (PART)
Kurtz, D., Athenian White Lekythoi (Oxford, 1975): PL.20.4
AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=4582
AVI Record Number: 4410
LIMC ID: 37768
LIMC Web: http://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/080e-75bae47ec4187-4
British Museum Link: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1893-0728-2
CAVI Collection: London D 33.
CAVI Lemma: WG lekythos. From Eretria. Unattributed. Last quarter fifth.
CAVI Subject: Electra seated on upper plinth of a stele; at left, Orestes (petasos, chlamys).
CAVI Inscriptions: Before Electra's face: Ελεκτρα. Ορεστε[ς].
CAVI Comments: Mixed alphabet, Ionic lambda and sigma. Genuine or false?
CAVI Number: 4410
AVI Bibliography: BADB 3033. — C.H. Smith in BM Cat. E (1896), 399. — Fairbanks (1907), Group B, Class 4, Series 1, no. 30 (not ill.). — Kurtz (1975), pl. 20,4.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
Pleiades URI: https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/579925
Coordinates: 38.393272,23.793125
Pleiades Coordinates: 38.399266,23.7918065

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