Lekythos with Chariot Scene

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Title

Lekythos with Chariot Scene

Subject

TERRACOTTA

Description

An Athenian lekythos (oil flask) decorated in the black-figure style with a chariot scene.
A woman, perhaps a meanad, mounts a chariot drawn by four hourses. Her face is picked out in white, and her himation (cloak) is embellished in maroon. In front of her, a second woman tends to the horses, and behind, a third woman holds vine sprays, signalling a procession dedicated to Dionysos. At the head of the group, a fourth woman is seated in a klismos (chair), looking back at her companions.
Such scenes would have been common in ancient Athens, which held frequent public festivals.

Creator

Aegean
Greek
Archaic

Source

Purchased from ArtAncient, London, with funds from the Alumni Friends of The University of Queensland donated by Dr Stephen Papas, Brisbane, 2017.

Date

490 BC

Identifier

18.002

Coverage

Greece
Attica

Files

18.002.jpg

Citation

Aegean, Greek, and Archaic, “Lekythos with Chariot Scene,” RD Milns Antiquities Museum Online Exhibitions, accessed March 29, 2024, https://uqantiquitiesonlineexhibitions.omeka.net/items/show/168.