Lekythos, between 470 and 460 BCE

  • Greek

Glazed earthenware

  • Overall: 5 7/8 × 2 1/2 inches (14.9 × 6.4 cm) Overall (diam of foot): 1 5/8 inches (4.2 cm)

City of Detroit Purchase

24.239

Department

Greco-Roman and Ancient European

Inscribed, painted on base: Cumo 89 Jan 13

found at (Cumae)

collection of the Dukes of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (Gotha, Germany), no. 101

collection Herzog Albert Ernest Alfred [Duke of Edinburgh and Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha] (Gotha, Germany)

collection placed on deposit (Schloss Friedenstein, Gotha, Germany), no. H. A. 349

(Herzogliches Museum, Gotha, Germany)

1924-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Madigan, B. "Corinthian and Attic Vases in the Detroit Institute of Arts." In Monumenta Graeca et Romana, vol. 12. Leiden/Boston, 2008, p. 36, cat. 46, (fig. 70) [attributed to the workshop of the Bedlam Painter].

Greek, Lekythos, between 470 and 460 BCE, glazed earthenware. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 24.239.